Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.

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.

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods.

I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Of course he was a part of what I hated about myself. Everything was a part of what I hated about myself. It wasn't really personal.

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us.

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.