...You know something, don't you?""I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.""Just answer the question.""True/false or multiple choice?

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

Walls don't fall without effort.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service, ' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

Those eyes of his just look up at me, pupils dilated in the diffused lights of the room. Wide, black pools, seeking out galaxies.

Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.

For most men the world is centered in self, which is misery: to have one's world centered in God is peace.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.