Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Christopher Lasch

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

David Byrne

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

Shaun White

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates

Samuel Johnson

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

Victor Cruz

Optimist: Day-dreamer in his small clothes

Mark Twain

Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conqueror.

Albert Camus

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Lord Byron

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

Voltaire

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

Jared Leto

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Henry Winkler

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

Lydia Maria Child