Should I push him or should I throw him?" Howie asks. "Do what comes naturally," I yelled back. "I don't know," he says. "This is a very unnatural thing.

Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.