I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.