"You are so very wonderful and fill our lives with cheer, today's a celebration for a daughter-in-law so dear. Happy Birthday"

“One thing I do know is that we are fortunate to be here and we're here to try and better ourselves and to be good.”

“Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.”

“I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.”

“In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an observation], and contrary to what is widely assumed by evolutionary biologists today, it has always been the anti-evolutionists [i.e creationist], not the evolutionists, in the scientific community who have struck rigidly to the facts and adhered to a more strictly empirical approach... It was Darwin the evolutionist who was retreating from the facts.”

“Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.”

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.122, Penguin

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.”