Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

..., dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.

This is her home now--of her own free will.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.

I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.

Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.

We each need to become our own hero.

Basketball's a game of mistakes.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.

We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?