Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing.

"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

If I'm a little girl, then that makes you a serious pervert.

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.

You'd be amazed at what I can do. Did you know I can swim?

In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am...because...you know...I don't really want to change it.

He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn’t even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.