Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.