There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Silence is the mother of truth.

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

I really get a chance to be a normal kid.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.