If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

If a lion takes its advice from sheep, it will go hungry.

Success lies in absorbing negative feedback and making the best use of it.

The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want it won't satisfy.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.