The universe is full of fuel.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

I am only alive because I have not yet died.

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

What the war did to dreamers.

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

What the war did to the dreamers.

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

Your life is your own responsibility.

Who might you be?” she demanded. “A wretched lord of cacophony and sheer decibels? Or a ruthless assassin of harmony?

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.

One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the door for other sorts of questions - and wounds.

The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.

One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.

Just let awareness have its way with you completely.