From the moment Julian entered the world, Florence had begun to conceive of life as separate from the aspects of its outward circumstances. Over and over, life renewed itself. Over and over, it made i...

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the...

You play those dimples like an exquisite orchestra, Mr. Boomer.

In most cases, you look for what you don't have. It limits and stagnates you. And unfortunately, you don't know know how to use what you do have. Yes, you've got your Brain, Google, and most important...

Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquiring every possible benefit.

Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.

Crossing the limit is not my styleMy footsteps meander less than a mileI travel the world perhaps in a minuteYet a dream, to me, is never infinite!

If I am through learning, I am through.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book.OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the w...

If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody. Of course, Raphael might like that...

If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.

I lay my fantasy in the backseat of Isa's car and slide in next to her. She snuggles up, using me as her personal pillow, her blond curls sprawled over my crotch. I close my eyes for a second, trying...

I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequate w...

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

... I fell in love with him even more, because I realized I was not just falling in love with Taymour but also with generations of him that connect through history, traits that had been passed down fr...