And even then, it might not have been too awful, but his head snapped back and he hit a rock, breaking like a blunt molar from the ground.

Autumn began to run. She felt an icy terror flood through her. He must have been waiting for her. He’d followed her all the way here. To this open, empty place. He knows where I live.

There was no sign of her daughter, no sign of a small body crumpled by the railway.

it wasn’t until the train went past that she saw the small body lying in the long grass by the side of the wood.

In the fleeting light she saw the meadow, dotted with stunted hawthorns, their twisted limbs dense with red berries, and then a shape: achingly familiar, child-sized, shockingly still.

Only one small, pale spot on her cheek was visible where her skin, free of blood, gleamed, as polished as bone.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us... Save my little girl...

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.

There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

My injuries are a long way from my heart.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

Never allow your fear to grow larger than your faith

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously.

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.