What's fair ain't necessarily right.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

You know, sometimes even when two people love each other the universe still conspires against them, forces them apart.

When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.

You don't need to worry, though. He's not my type." "I don't think I've ever heard a girl say that before," said Simon. "I thought Jace was the kind of guy who was everyone's type.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.