Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

How could I wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different.

I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed.

Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

All I can say to the others is, 'Look out, we're on our way.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.