Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

It's a big world for the idiots. If you're a writer, there are not many cities where you can go and feel normal.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.

There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

You are either moving towards or away from success at any given time. What direction are you headed in?

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.