What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

We each survive in our own way.

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

I'm not married, ” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, "As you wish.

Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With my knives.

A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

I like music, ' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once.

Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow.

First it was "The Silent Generation", then "Generation Boomers", then "Generation X", then "Generation Y" and as last "Generation Z".

I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.

We all have a dual nature, some of us are just better able to control the energy we expend on each part of it." Lessons for an Urban Goddess

Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of "cleaning" people, of discarding people.