I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Some day soon, " Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

I want to go on tour with the most exciting artists, and I want to make sure that I have songs with all of them.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.

I've killed my soul by playing the victim.

Little chickie la la, isn’t dumb enough to fall for that, guys. (Tabitha)