They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

It still hurts, " she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, " Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.

Complaint is a prayer to the devil.

Anybody that walks can sing.

Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

The Devil invented gambling.