When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?”I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not?

Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave.

Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful.

There is no gravity. The only thing holding me to this planet is you.

But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.

No one can understand your pain until they experience it. Stop trying to explain.

Dealing with one who feels smarter than you, let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.