It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

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.

Understanding who you are within comes through self- awareness and self-education

A man who repents after doing any action, he will certainly become pure one day, that is definite.

When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation.

Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

The ears are the last feature to age.

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.