Do you love him?"How would I know?"You'd know.

This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.

. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy

but that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.

It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.

No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery.

Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.