In the real world, you can make your own miracles

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance.

Good God. Men everywhere.

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively, but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.

Let us be loving, caring, and kind to everyone we meet in this beautiful journey called life. At the end nothing else matters.

Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.