Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

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.

if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

But when he’s cut, I bleed.

He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show.

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.