This, Derek, is what you’re going to turn into without her in your life. You can only get worse from here. This is why you need her.

Derek’s. Lucas’. Ben’s. It’s beyond me what I must do to make them realize that I’m neither object nor possession. I don’t belong to any of them.

After all, it seemed far nobler to give up one’s life to the light than to the dark.

Sometimes, that’s the way it is with people. You think you can tell what they are based on the patterns that you see, but when you take a look inside, they’re nothing like you expect them to be.

The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.

Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of being well-preserved, but to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, still screaming, 'Whoo what a ride!

They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.

The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.