Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

Who dreams so much, forgets to live

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem

I like to breed players that attack people.

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.