...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit.

Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?' I asked...'Because I love them so much.

But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us, " I said."We know us, " said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?

A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.

Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.We were about to become cigarettes.

To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.

Climate change is like my head: it’s not visible in every instance, but I’m pretty darn sure it’s there.

Don't judge a book by its movie.

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

If someone else doesn't like your confidence, that's their problem. Why? You always come before they do, that's why.

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.