Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.

We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.

Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them.

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.

Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?""Not particularly. You have that effect on people.

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.

Liberty will always triumph over fear and fundamentalism. Our desire to be free is greater than their desire to terrorise and our capacity to love far exceeds their capacity to hate.

This was home. This was perfection. This was everything he'd never known he wanted. (Griff)

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.

I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can.

Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

Maybe you should just press the button

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.