As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.

Hope can get you through anything.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home.

Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.

Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.

No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next.

He's got a thing for Alex Riley.

The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.