..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

My tiny scary friend is coming

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire!

Thank God there's somebody that doesn't like Stuart Scott. I'm so happy!. It was nice to have that counter-balance to ESPN.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

We nearly always make ourselves masters of those whom we know well, because he who is thoroughly understood is in some sense subject to those who understand him.

You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.