“My life is nothing more than bad timing separated by unimaginable moments of tragedy. I'd reconciled my pain with the promise of revenge ... until her.”

“The only thing worse than living with regret, is dying with regret.”

“I don't have kids or even that many friends, but if I did, I'd want my lasting impression on them to be this: Every life matters, but never one more than another. Sometimes silence holds more meani...”

“You're forgiven."I don't deserve her."But not forgotten," I whisper. She'll never forget what I did. It's not humanly possible. Sometimes I want the impossible. Her expression doesn't change. "My h...”

“Food. Small talk. Maybe I say something that makes you grin. Maybe you say something that makes me giggle. Maybe the food is crap, so we drink too much wine. Maybe the full moon beckons us to the b...”

“What do you do?" I ask. "I live.""I live" is not an answer, until I think about it. Maybe it's the perfect answer.”

“I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human a...”

“He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up yo...”

“Sometimes, people dont need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.”

“We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to resc...”

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe.”

“Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”

“Sometimes the unyielding are just fighting to stay alive. No one wants to find out that their life was a lie. And when you change someones mind, you are only rebirthing them into your reality. You ...”

“Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another perspective. Always try not to judge. Always seek...”