I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Snyder: There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense."Giles: Well, actually, that would be one of the five.

Money as the sole ambition has no value.

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.

Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

Be in love with your heart-life. There, only there, Is the flood of happiness.