Things are different here. There will be rules and regulations that you are not used to. You will have to follow them. All of them.

Thanks, for saving me.”“I didn’t have a choice, ” he said softly.“Everyone has a choice.”“Then mine was easy.”“Easy?”He chuckled. “Olivia, my choice will always be simple when it comes to you...

Everyone is dangerous in here, can’t you see that?” he warned.

We’re in an underground vault, and here’s my first order: You’re going to do everything I tell you to do.

She’d been caught up in that image, that flash, man’s nuclear stamp, and had not really understood what happened after.

Olivia responded with confidence, “You’re the military. You’re in charge. Why would I be scared?

It’s not a war. It’s an annihilation, ” he’d mumbled low for her ears only. She’d been unable to respond, only focusing on her own breath and marveling that she in fact was still breathing.

You knew I would find you and you knew what I'd do when I did." -Cort (The Carver's Problem)

When libertarian sentiments take a populist form, it looks like this: a mix of anger, fear, anti-intellectualism, and fierce government hostility. Welcome to the Tea Party movement.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing.

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

Turn your habit into a conscious decision.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

The first one I actually met was George Harrison.

Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.