The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.
Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.
My mother once told me that no women is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.
I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.
The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.
Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.
Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?
Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.
Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family.
Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.
...even saying good-bye isn’t enough. There’s always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There’s always going to be that one missing piece.
Crazy gets all the knives.
And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.
When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.
Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.
Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality
Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps.
Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving
One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.
Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.
We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.
I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.
Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again.
We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be.
And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say: You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.
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