The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man’s tragedy.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we...

I wonder if that fear still creeps up on her now though she worked so hard to face it—I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

It happened. It was awful. You aren’t perfect. That’s all there is. Don’t confuse your grief with guilt.”We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minutes,...

He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one of those thingss—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave...

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.