None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we were each giving something to the other.

Her sudden grin depleted some of his brain cells. She was evil like that.

Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed - a running leap over a chasm of ignorance and misunderstanding between species and worlds... and a baby step taken...

…the most devastating thing Finney could have said. Not that Peter was hated by his father. But that he'd been loved all along. He'd interpreted kindness as cruelty, generosity as meanness, support...

As we ride the elevator Gale finally says "You're still angry." "And you're still not sorry," I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?" he asks. "No, I want you to...

"No. No, I don't want my hands restrained." "Yes. You do."

It seems you want me at your mercy, Princess. Question is, why? No, she whispered, question is do I?

Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you deal with that?

Don't blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before.

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

If you don't know how to deal with emotion, other people's feelings can hit you like a drug.

If you ever pull a switcheroo like that again, Dee, I'm going to offer your boyfriend ten thousand dollars to make out with Alice for two minutes.

When he is cheerful - - when the sun shines into his mind - - then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present minute. If words are to be sounded, impress through the partition in...

She {Mme des Laumes} belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.

Maybe the real issue here is that we were not created to do life by ourselves. We were not given a sentence of solitary confinement and placed in a world of isolation, but from the moment we entered...

You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at...

"Is there something going on between you and Matias?" "No!" "Okay, I may not have a truck load of fancy degrees but all I can say is… liar, liar, I'm seriously thinking of grabbing my blow torch and...

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust... flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making...

I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. I could kiss you! Chubs cried. Please don't! I gasp out, feeling his...

Momiji Sohma: Are you sure? Shigure said it hurt really bad. Hatori Sohma: Yes, well, I did that on purpose.

On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. "How could you be so stupid?" I shrug, stung in spite of myself. "I thought I grew out of it." Philip pulls out his key fob and presses the remote to...

No blame, no hate - why no communication?

Olivia handed Cara the bowl of ice cream. You finish it. Life would be so much easier if Malloy would go out onto the plains and let himself be eaten by a bear.

"Your friend Lila is calling from her car phone," Ned said, half amused and half annoyed. "Apparently something earth-shattering has come up, and unless she can talk to you this very second, she...

"Say it, Gregori," she bit out between clenched teeth. "I need to hear you say it."

"To be fair to Monica," I said, "what you did to her wasn't very nice either." "What'd I do to her?" he asked, defensive. "You know, going blind and everything." "But that's not my fault," Isaac said....

"Insults are only really effective," she said, "when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter."