As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He’s more myself than I am

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

You can have religion but not know Christ. It’s having Christ that counts.

Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

Who didnt grow up through the 90s watching Friends?

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

It's traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don't have any Republican clothes.