There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.

Thus, in the boy’s mind, drink and destruction braided together. Intoxication, he concluded, was a swift and effective catalyst for havoc.

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

There will always be something a little off, but like a three-legged dog, you’ll learn to walk again.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

I’d gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.

I'm one of the few candidates that actually goes out and talks in public, so I say a lot of things based on my experience, my judgment as an environmental health physician, so I say a lot of stuff.

I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do... you go to the internet.