Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.

You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.

I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

To teach someone something, appreciate even the slightest improvements and avoid criticism.

When infused with compassion, even the most useless snake oils have the power to heal broken hearts and shattered souls.

The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options

Respect is and not given, respect is earned.

Selfishness Stops The Flow Of Blessings To You and Others

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

A good Traceur trains until he/she gets it right. An excellent Traceur trains until he/she cannot get it wrong.

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.