You're desperate, and so am I, ' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244

It's hard to know what's right in this life, ' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"P459

Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.

Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185

I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287

What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459

Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.

There is an art to Noavek bullshit, " Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.

I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.

Honor, ” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337

What year is it in your imagination?

After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

The people from 'The State' are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know.

Just be yourself, be you and that's how I think you're going to feel the most confident.

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1.