Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

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.

Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth.

people say things meant to rip you in half but you hold the power to notturn their words into a knifeand cut yourself

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

I'm not asking the public to trust me I'm asking the public to trust themselves.

People will steal it if you don't make it easy to buy it.

But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.

He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

That each day that you love, honor, and respect your own unique point of view, you're a step closer to finding a fortune.

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.