Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

One doesn't fall into love... one digs a hole for himself to trip... claiming he didn't see it coming

What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina.“Yes, ” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?

Never allow your present situation deprive you from your happiness".

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.