The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?

If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.

And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.

You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

Do you not hear the constant victory, in the human footraceof time, slow as fire, sure, and thick and Herculeanaccumulating its volume and adding its sad fiber?

Eternity: the length of a life.

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.