Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming, good deeds could earn you Judgment day brownie points.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.