If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.