I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen.

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!

The world is terrible, " said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked."In case one of them is stolen, " Marked said, as it were entirely normal.

Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.

And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall effect was haunting, inhumanly beautiful.

No one is ever alone and silence does not equate defeat.

It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.

Losers have goals. Winners have systems.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.