I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be.

A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

—I don't want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.

Oh my God, Green, ” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socksand put the kid out of his misery.

What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?

You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything.

When you begin to actively participate in the creation of your life, there is never an end, even in death, for physics tells us that nothing is ever created nor destroyed, merely transformed.

In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.

Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.

I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.

Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers.

Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.