There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

Relationships are never chance events.

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Music give infinite strength.

Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

Who ever said that one was born just once?

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

Every football player knows when his time is up.

You see, I don't believe in that grabbin' and grabbin' and stuffin yourself and not givin' anythin' or puttin' it back.

True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.