The thing was, the places of your life, like the clothes you wore and the car you drove and the friends and associates you had, were a product of the way you lived.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge

The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

The heavy soul will not pass though the body is failing.

Sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.-Ehlena's thoughts

Caregivers had to take care of themselves, and part of that meant having a life beyond whatever illness had put them in their cole.

Without time, you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity....Time is what gives life significance.

I would remember this as one of those moments in life that I can hold onto and smile about, forever.

I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person...

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.

The day they put me in net I had a good game. I've stayed there ever since.