..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.

Life always squashes death. Love always soothes sadness.

What if just you and I hung out, like last summer?" Nick sat up and began twirling a lock of my wet hair around his finger. "Josh never needs to know.

That's the thing about technology, the closer you think it brings you, the further it pulls you apart.

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." - Which Macabre

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

Oliver Stone. Is that not enough?

There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.