"And I was waiting over here for life to begin, I was looking for the new thing And you were the sunshine heading my front line. I was alone …"

— Pete Yorn

"“Their work was undercover—yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works."

— Lindsey Davis

"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we ar…"

— Katherine Anne Porter

"She had a kind of genius for picking the wrong man. She always looked for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole romantic kitchen, wh…"

— John Fowles

"If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does."

— Christopher Hitchens