I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..

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.

Angelo, " he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

Whatever I'm working on, I get excited. It does not matter whether I have done the same piece many times. I still can't wait to get out to the shop in the morning.

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.

Wisdom belongs in wonder.