Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest deter….

Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of t….

I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with ….

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learni….

Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back, you're happy for a while….

Ready...set-y...spaghetti!.

I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and ever….

I am stronger than my trials..

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future..

If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained..

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone..

If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is concerned, that's what those things are t….

I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the charact….

I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile..

Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them..

The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think….

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint..

Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite..

It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already..

Here was something that I did all the time, and thought nothing of it, and it turns out the rest of the world thinks it's completely reprehensible. T….

I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know h….