The result was I went nowhere.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.

A field which feeds you, a river which gives you water are much holier than all other so-called holy places!

It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs. Explaining why his Northwestern teams played difficult schedules.

I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.

I wouldn't be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

But I’ll never see anyone else, Bella. I only see you. Even when I close my eyes and try to see something else. Ask Quil or Embry. It drives them all crazy

You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.