Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

The simplest things are the hardest to understand.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother."What?""She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!""Take a picture for me, " Grandma said.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Always, worlds within worlds.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

The demon had trouble remembering what she was doing, but she was powerful, sort of the crazy Wendy of the lost lord-of-the-flies boys.

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

Fans are my favourite thing in the world