Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it…

- Ian Caldwell

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

- Ian Caldwell

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

- Ian Caldwell

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

- Ian Caldwell

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

- Ian Caldwell

I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we k…

- Ian Caldwell

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pea…

- Ian Caldwell

Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles flo…

- Ian Caldwell

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some ap…

- Ian Caldwell