She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Make something beautiful of your life.

Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.