We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.

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.

New hair, new clothes-the classic relationship break-up makeover, " Jake

We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.

No wounded man shall sound me and live.

...'Better is the end of a matter than its beginning.'– Ecclesiastes 7:8

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

Puns are the highest form of literature.

You don't need to say any special incantation or sacrifice a stray cat or something first?

I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.