These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.

Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .

Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not.

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.