"The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers."

“It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam. I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better then the girl actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. It's very hard for me to see Sam feel better about herself just because a boy sees her that way.”

“I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.”

“At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty”

Source : Cate Tiernan (2007). “Awakening: Book Five”, p.116, Penguin

“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...”

“Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

“If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.”

“A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.”

Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 27), 2004.

“Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.”