We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status...

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

That Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

You're good with people, and all I know how to do is give good neck.

You know a lot about math, I said. You know a lot about math? What type of statement was that? Right along the lines of Hey, you have hair and it's red and curly. Real smooth.

You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

Whether you live or die, whether you're bad or good, whether you're born or not, it's all arbitrary… but what can I say? I don’t like fate or chance, and I don’t always play by the rules, legalist as...

Well, I guess slave-runners aren't really my cup of tea. That is who you married instead, right? A slave-runner. Your father must have been so proud.That wiped the grin right off her face.You leave my...

We know from Glenn Milne's inundation data that Gozo and Malta were indeed one big island during the Ice Age, down to approximately 13,500 years ago, and that they did not take on their present form a...

We cannot help where we are born or how we are raised, Tel Hesani said. But we can reject the twisted beliefs of those around us if we need to. Our loved ones and elders don't always know what is best...

Un amor auténtico debería de asumir la contingencia del otro, es decir, sus carencias, sus límites y su gratuidad originaria; así no pretendería ser una salvación sino una relación entre seres humanos...

True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few potatoes had been planted that, even if they escaped bight, the...

To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of...

This is a story of eternal love, which is born among the ices but which is soon mixed with dreams of death and of a new dawn. The first heroes were those who surrendered themselves to the holocaust of...

This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly certaint...

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are.... [they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I’ve watched you fight. It’s not training with...