You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character.

if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d'if, william smithback could escape from river oaks

No, I don't have a ring, but I have my heart and it's all yours.

Can I ask you something?" He placed the chain around her neck. She nodded. "Have you ever wanted something really badly that you know you shouldn't have, yet you can't stop yourself from wanting it?

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.