You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

It still hurts, " she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, " Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221

Harry Potter mustn't be angry... Dobby hoped... if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten him... Harry Potter might not want to go back to school, sir...

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

I believe humor nullifies violence.

Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas