For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.

That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Integrity starts from the inside out, not the outside in.

The ones who disappoint you need you the most.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.

None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.