Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.

Let her go, ” Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.

The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.

It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

if youdon't want toend up insomeone else'spoem, then maybeyou shouldstarttreatingpeoplebetterfor achange.- an unapologetic poet.

Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.

I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

I learned there's a tremendous amount of sisterhood among Muslim women, which I thought was really beautiful.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.