The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

actions speak louder than words

But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

Angel... I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.' -Patch (PG 262)

Tacos." "Tacos?" I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. "Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese." "I know what a taco is!

I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.

I am not much of a mind to touch

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.

The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.