Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

Do not hide your light for fear of what others may think of you. Let it shine and be a reflection of what is possible.

…If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero, ' said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.

Early on, when my wife and I were dating, we went to the grocery store, and I told her that sometimes I just buy birthday cakes, and I eat them. And she said: 'Really? I do, too.'

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

I think the industry can probably self-correct without regulation, but I don't believe an individual outlet can regulate itself.