He's not the brightest crayola in the pack.

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too.

I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite

Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.

Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.

Comfort is for the lazy and the ugly." Aphrodite

She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

The way a book is read- which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.

Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.