I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, " Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafriad of toil

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.