For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

I don't wear tattoos to freak her out

Believe that sometimes choices in life aren't always what we WANT. But sometimes, they're what we NEED

I don't have to live that way anymore

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.