“The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of ea...”

“I am as silent as death. Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not a glass coffin behind a morgue door. Lie down on your bed not made of ice. Stick your fingers in your...”

“Dont you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your resp...”

“The President called it the Epitome of the American dream. Daddy called it the unholy alliance of business and government. But all it really was, was America giving up. Bailing out in order to join...”

“Power isnt control at all power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isnt someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to o...”

“More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes, it must pass, but I have no more assurance of moving through time than I have that I am moving through...”

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

“Dont try to fit me in a box My life is not one dimensional. Im the summer breeze and the hurricane Im the serene lake and the raging ocean Im the gentle poet and the rough warrior I can build and I...”

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)”

“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.”

“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt co...”