the drama below and the drama above could easily collide at any moment

The kernel of truth sank into the fertile soil of [her] imagination, possibilities for a happy resolution suggesting themselves in vague flashes of potential and promise...

The two stared together into a future that held as much pain as promise, as much sorrow as sunshine...

You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

The say money talks, but I've seen it sing, and even seen it dance.

I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!

How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.