I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. I Peter 4:2

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.