Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of all reason it will stay by your side, and even when you tell it, "I am moving on now," it will say, "I shall never leave you; never." If only I could find a lover as faithful as guilt.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.