They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.

I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.

Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.