He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

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.

I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.