But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.
We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.
Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?
Such a simple concept, yet so true. That which we manifest is before us, we are the creators of our own destiny.
I’ve trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.
It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.
Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
The boy I fell madly in love with – the boy made entirely of goodness and light – has been snuffed out by the bloodthirsty creature that glowers before me.
This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.
I've never done this with a woman like you before. Never wanted to. I only know... I don't want it to end.
Are you really a Texan? I mean, really? Riley, if I have a headache, I'd put bacon around an aspirin before I take it.
Why choose the lesser evil anyway, when the greater evil is usually higher quality and will last longer before it breaks?
Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
I’ll eat this world like coffee-flavored bubblegum. I’ll chew thoroughly before I swallow.
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.
How many memories can come through at once before they are just jumbled words and faces mixed together by years of pain?
I keep sniffing my skin, pleasantly surprised by how nice it is to smell like a flower. I've never smelled like anything before.
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
