I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.

Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.

Embrace reality by imagination.

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your own reflexive truths.

It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.