It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, " Maria said finally.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.' And why is that, Percy Jackson?' Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.