“I think,' Hoa says slowly, 'that if you love someone, you don't get to choose how they love you back.”

“Because that is how one survives eternity, I say, or even a few years. Friends. Family. Moving with them. Moving forward.”

“But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”

“Syl Anagist's assimilation of the world had been over a century before I was ever made; all cities were Syl Anagist. All languages had become Sylanagistine. But there were none so frightened, or so...”

“How can we prepare for the future if we wont acknowledge the past?”

“I definitely havent been in the best place while working on this book, but I can say this much: Where there is pain in this book, it is real pain; where there is anger, it is real anger; where ther...”

“A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have ...”

“It takes a society to raise a generation.”

“Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. Its everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery B...”