But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

Well, whose opinion did you take?”“I don’t ask for opinions.”“What do you go by?”“Judgment.”“Well, whose judgment did you take?”“Mine.”“But whom did you consult about it?”“Nobody.

Gentlemen of die Jury: The one absolute unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world the one that never deserts him the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Don't give up before you get off your feet. Put the time in to learn what you can, build relationships, and develop quality content.

You are like a captain navigating a ship... You must give the right orders, thoughts and images to your subconscious which controls and governs all your experiences.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.