When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t cry.

Family is never really gone.

It’s all in my mind.I’m in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.

And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that’s already come true.

I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.

I have emotions, ” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.

I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.

That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

I don't think cops should wear mirrored sunglasses; the whole time the guy was chewing me out, all I could think was I should cut my bangs.

The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted!

The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.