She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.