I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.

But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.

There are photographs of people you don't recognize and photographs of you in ways you don't wish to be remembered, but they each contain elements of places or times you do not wish to forget.

This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.

Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.

The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.

Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that i too can defy gravity.

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Death..." The voice dropped even more, black-gloved hands disappearing into the black folds of material. "Don't you feel it? We're all dead here...all...very...dead.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

The rain cometh down and the snow from heaven and retumeth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me.

The Dutch are a very practical people.

God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.

Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.

I respect every fighter that gets inside of the ring, especially with me.