There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable, " said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo.

Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?

I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.

Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.

Conventional wisdom may not be wise.Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.Freedom of choice is predetermined.Don’t believe anything you read!

Wake up ! This ain't war between good and evil anymore.This is war between good people for their respective survival.Whoever lose in this war, will be remembered as the evil one.

The dance that I wasn't going to attend in about a jillion years just turned into a make-out session with random boys we have never met.

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is "How much do you think we have to spend on them?"

[Being a celebrity] In a word, it's terrible. In two words...Really terrible.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.