I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.
I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across his face, blaringly yellow, and suddenly he was brighter, and brighter, and i asked him what was happening, what was wrong. I remember only that light, so strong it spilled across my shoulders, and lit up his face, and how scared he looked as something big and loud hit my door, sending glass shattering across me, little sparks catching the light like diamonds, as they fell, with me, into the dark.
Be ruthless about protecting writing days.
There are no guarantees. Not with love or with life. But we can't go through life never taking a risk. . . Put our hearts out there. Take a chance with a boy. We might end up hurt, we might not.