This is why the oceans taste of salt. It is because of all the tears of mermaids for sailors who have died for their love. The oceans are salt with death and grief.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

Edward Snowden isn't a traitor. He reported the crime of conspiracy to deny citizens of their constitutional rights. NetworkEtiquette.net

If it took eons to get to the edge of one's galactic yard, she could not imagine the neighbors dropping by for a casual visit, especially since the heavenly houses were uninhabitable well into the next state.

Fear comes at me like a massive bull with lowered horns ready to gore. But I have learned of the insubstantial nature of fear: if I stand my ground, it will pass right through me.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us.-MUKTA

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart

You have to make your peace with Kaden, and he with you. You are not on opposite sides anymore. Do you understand?

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.