“We were so good, but so good only lasts for so long.”

“The story Grandpa told us helped me realize that people cannot be divided into groups by ethnicity, religion, or any other feature, only into groups of good, bad, and indifferent people.”

“There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.”

“Not everyone is bad in life. But everyone can be affected by bad things. We all need help at certain points in our life, why we need it is no right of others to judge whether it is a good or not reason to help.”

“When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.”“We all felt it,” Nick said.“You may have felt it, but I caused it.” Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. “Something changed out there. I don’t know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn’t deserve what I did to him—and the powers that be know that I did it.” Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table.“What if,” said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, “what if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?”Clarence chuckled at the thought. “I believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.”“But you do think that something changed. . . .”“I don’t know whether it’s good or bad.”“What if it’s neither?” suggested Nick. “What if we get to make it one or the other?”

“Bad luck with women is a determined man’s road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.”

“If you look for the bad in your life you will find some, but if you look for the good you will find it everywhere.”

“Day or night, good or bad…all things from within.”

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.”

“Harvest is real, but be wise to sow what you will love to reap in the new year, because your day of harvest is fast approaching.”

“I always consider myself as being bad in equation, of being a failure at Math. But when I start to count down my Blessings I don’t believe I’m bad at all!”

“Enlightenment does not mean making the most of bad situations. It means knowing that every situation is neither good nor bad.”

“One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.”

“Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don’t be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.”