“The thing about second chances", Mom interrupted, laying a hand on my arm "is we always walk into them assuming we'll feel better, when nine times out of ten things get worse before the ever get be...”

“Everyone wears masks.They come in all different shapes and sizes.The only problem with trying one on is that it fits. How easily we fall into the trap that we dont have to be who we really are.How ...”

“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away...”

“If beauty is pain let me get lost in it. If youre my salvation I want to earn it. If love is all I have to give then let me give it. You. Its all for you. Gabes eyes opened and locked in on mine...”

“For as long as it takes for the sorrow and pain to transfer into acceptance. Ill stay here. With you. By your side. I wont leave.Promise?Vow. I placed his hands gently on the piano. I vow.”

“Watching someone you love die? There are no words for how broken that makes a person. Its like waking up from a bad dream only to find out that its you reality, its like watching sunlight fade from...”

“Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'.”

“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”

“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”

“too many left-wing student groups treat no one as badly as students of color or women who consider themselves to be classical liberals, libertarians, or conservatives, or who merely disagree with t...”

“There is no sin that will be left unpunished.”

“And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemiesracism, leader worship, superstitionassume when they reappear amongst us (often bodyguarded by their new apologists).”