With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.

Don’t be afraid of the darkness

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

Heaven help the man who fights his fear.

The price of freedom is to allow freedom. Very few people are willing to pay the price.

A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!"

It's tough to fully believe in yourself sometimes.