I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my lips. But it was useless. In that moment, Jace was everywhere. He was in my mind, he was in my heart, and he was in my memory. He smelled good. He tasted good. And the blissful aftershock still throbbing in my most sensitive places felt wonderful, when everything else in my life was an obstacle to be overcome.

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

Katy Perry

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Lord Chesterfield

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Joseph Barbera

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

Eliot Spitzer

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

Martin Luther King Jr.

Therefore you can never lose hope--because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Cassandra Clare

...when I met you, you were so beautiful, the air around you vibrated with color ...

John Geddes

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.

Lewis Thomas

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg