Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.
Someone else's idea of happiness was a lot easier to attain than a happiness I could not envision and didn't think I deserved.
There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.
You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.
Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)
I don’t believe that," I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica)
Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began? Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?
...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)
Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)
Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)
Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)
You were you, and I was I; we were two before our time. I was yours before I knew, and you have always been mine too.
Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops. Mind can't see event of future before it happens.
Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.
You make me want to do things I’ve never done before. Never wanted to do before,’ she whispered.
