I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Free will, " she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

... it's not just for a friend. I mean, Reign is a friend, but... I like him. A lot. And I'd like it if he was more than just a friend.

Never bet against the man in the mirror.

Imagine how many new friends you would make, how much new business you could create, and how much fun you could have by simply taking the initiative to be the inviter.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.