I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

When you dive into your past, remember to go back up quickly.

The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence.