He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket.

Hope is an investment that never fails the investor

Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.

Sometimes therapy takes years and years, and sometimes it can happen in one miraculous instant, a lifetime of doubt and self-hatred healed in a moment of astounding love.

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.