Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.

Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.

Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.

Anna, " he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.

It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was...perfect.

Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.

The late-night backyard encounter and kiss induced insomnia.

It's rally bad when dads cry.

I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest tiniest littlest bit kinda sorta interested in him.

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

Sometimes God offends our minds in order to reveal our hearts.

Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.

One reads not for information, but inspiration.