The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Prayer is better than pills.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

I aspire to inspire before I expire.

Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

I just had a really good time when I did my voice work for Call of Duty. Ive had nothing but great interaction with Activision.

Everything I do is metal. When I clean my house, it's metal.

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.