When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.

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.

Our sacred duty is to love, motivate and pray for one another, so that, we all received grace of God, for every good deed.

I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end.

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

Brand is not what you say it is. It’s what they say it is.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.