These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Franz Liszt

Happily Ever After starts every time you woke up.

T.A

She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feelings; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced. But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude.--Gratitude not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister. Such a change in a man of so much pride, excited not only astonishment but gratitude--for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not exactly be defined.

Jane Austen

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

John Irving

You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Carl Sandburg

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

Wole Soyinka

I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.

Lauren Conrad

Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Francis Beaumont

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Dalai Lama

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Mark Twain

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton