You don't know how Fate finds you, and neither do I. But until it does, we get to be whatever we can be."pg 354

I wanted to show these people who he really was. And pain always did that, took the insides out."pg 364

She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "pg 346

He couldn't imagine, couldn't imagine the horror of scrubbing your own father's blood out of the floor. Better to set the whole house on fire, better to leave and never come back."pg 338

The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.

Being brave is about the everyday points of bravery that when taken together and viewed from a collective perspective make for an extraordinary life of love.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?