For a nanosecond, I meet her gaze.Despite the dark, I can see her eye color—it’s the prettiest, strangest shade of blue I’ve ever seen in my life—piercing, dark, and shiny. And then she is gone.

All this time, William doesn’t move from my side, his hand surely and confidently glued to my waist like it belongs there, one piece of a puzzle that matches the other, making the picture complete.

We’re to be married. Does it matter if I permit it?”“To me it does, yes, ” says Merek. “And I imagine you, like me, appreciate the illusion of having a choice, even when illusion is all it is.

Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song.

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

Freedom rests on finding the meaning and lessons even in our greatest pain.

This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

I'd take telekinesis. I could move things with my mind, and with telepathy I could control other people's minds and make them do whatever I wanted.