What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

I hated him for making me stop hating him

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

Zapped while zipping.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

Our sincere tears can touch our sinless saviour, to change our sinful life.

Big food companies flatter us by telling us how busy we are and they simultaneously convince us that we are helpless. I am moderately busy, but not all that helpless. Neither are you.

Tears are the biggest weapon used by every girl against the boys with a success rate of hundred percent.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Dracula, who said while they drove a wooden stake into his heart, Boy, I sure hope this is heartburn. Never got a dinner!

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

I've always been attracted to independent women, but the idea that someone could be independent and still kind of put herself second at times was pretty interesting.