I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

We only perceive God when we receive people

Everybody feel pain except a woman who kicks a man in the balls.

Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence , and attendants with infinite patience.