Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said, "Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.

he needed the security of other bodies.

Mom somehow made it to every one of my graduations - even when it meant she had to travel far away.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

My biggest 'don't' from the past? Picking my face!

each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story or provide necessary background.

You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.

The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.

I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.