And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

Family is never really gone.

It’s all in my mind.I’m in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.

As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.

And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that’s already come true.

I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.

I have emotions, ” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.

I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.

If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

For the wonder of a first love can never be matched.

Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it?

I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

There are atheists, and I love them. In fact, I died for them.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.