What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.

That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

impossible is not a word

I'm man enough to know when to scream.

That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else.

why should I die and loose you to tell god how much I love you...

The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door.

It is to be doubted whether anybody who said good-bye to Bert had any faith or interest whatsoever in the life everlasting. This life had, some of them thought, been quite bad enough.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.