Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

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.

But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.

it felt like waking up over and over without falling sleep in between.

Don't worry so much about 'not supposed to'.

I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

I know that I want to wait for something that I really feel great about.

Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.