If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see.

Tess?” A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

Your mom is my sunset, and you are my dawn.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.

And now I know it's hard when you don't know what to think