I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.

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.

Don't be carried away by the current of the situation. Focus on the essentials, take action on the best alternative are the ways of shifting from reactive to proactive mindset.

For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

My style is the paparazzi approach which is spontaneous, unrehearsed, off-guard. The beauty I'm after is inherent, more natural. Genuine emotions, real emotions, that's what I look for.

Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.