What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that— like he was running out of time.

Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.

If you’re supposed to work with someone, I’d recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was “tense.

The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.

He looked so frustrated and perfectly serious, and yet here we were talking about his missing seal pelt.

We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

From the way his face lit with curiosity to the slight tilt of his jaw, even the lingering scent of brine and breeze gave him away.

The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d left unsaid driving us apart.

Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

Stop shouting praise the Lord when you can't handle your life, you can't represent God when you are messing up his reputation.

The bad things, don't do them.The good things, try to do them.Try to purify, subdue your own mind.That is the teaching of all buddhas.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

And no-one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.