I can wait in silence no longer, but I’m afraid I’m already too late. I am trapped between agony and hope—believing I have no right to speak, but knowing more how much I’d regret it...

We’ll see how smug you are once I’m on dry land.

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can...

I don’t need to see the trail to know you’re at the end of it. My grandfather’s compass may not work, but mine is still true.

…You are my compass star.” And he was hers.

True hunger was a weapon stronger than any of his abstract desires. It’s what toppled countries and made men desperate.

There are a few things that even sarcasm can’t protect you from.

Once you start, you just can’t stop.

This whole time, I wasn’t waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me.Not sex.But me.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?

I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the best student there. Such was not the case at Eli. Here, I was...

I think it’s vital that we do not sleep together. You know, for the safety of the world.” His eyes sparkled and there was just a hint of a smile at the corners of his...

Sometimes it’s only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.