Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess." "And everything awful used to be something good.
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
Damn, you have no idea what I have been through today." "Actually I have a pretty good idea.
Constance always said good people need to stand up and do what's right, otherwise bad things will go unchallenged.
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.
Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.
Aren’t those vegetables sexy, Rog?” Grant cooed, trying to hold in laughter. “Sexy, sexy veggies. You two need to go on lots of dates together.
Um, h-h-hi,” Sophie stammered, closing the door behind her. Meeting her gaze were crystal eyes like blue shards of glass.
Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.
The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.
There will be days you wish you’d never done it. And those will be the good times, when it’s only days of regret and not months.
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.
Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.
...knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.
[...] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep.
...all "months" work together for the good of those who love the Lord! ...all the days of this month will work together for your goodness!
Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.
The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.
