he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in him and press up hard against it...

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

What good were real feelings anyway?

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross

Tell me, Constantine, who was afraid of what?" There was no sense in answering. No matter what Con said, Ulrik would never admit that he was wrong and Con was right.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations.

Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you.

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.