There are some losses we never get over.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Don't differentiate between "This is a job" and "This is what I'm doing for fun." It's all simultaneous.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

I don't like to fight.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.