Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look

You have to dream big, wish hard and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you.

A woman is a hunter without a forest.

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

There can be no true friends without true enemies

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.

I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.

I’m a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock? Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.129