The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.

Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.

I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.

Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.

I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title

Abruptly, Adrik snarled, 'I'm glad Sergei's dead. I'm just sorry I didn't get to wring his neck myself.''You'd need two hands for that, ' said

Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?You called me and I answered

Disbelief in GOD is like living in the city and denying the people who have been to the country and tell you about it.

Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.

While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world

And Sky?” he asked, his voice soft. “Yes?”“Maybe you don’t need me, but I need you.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.

The fire is not discriminating. It burns anything in its path for whatever reason.

Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.