The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.

You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.

What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.

The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.

She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.

Nobody is better than me.

One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

Silence rolled at me, in

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.