It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed.

Tyler shrugs. "It's a big world, Jo. Who am I to say what is and isn't possible?

So much for a great opening speech, that sucker done tucked tail and is hiding in the deepest part of my brain, sucking its thumb.

Whoa... don't go freaking out on me yet, " he says with a smile, a smile I'm starting to have a real like and hate relationship with.

There's a transparent face that looks deep into my eyes, baring my soul, right before terror consumes me and the image becomes a black mass of horror.

It's evil, Jo. It exists in all forms of life and death.

The fact that ghosts are real doesn't surprise me-I've always been a believer in that area. It's the realization that there may be something out there, something most can't see, that is able to kill.

It seems I can go from elated, embarrassed, angry, and back to embarrassed in four comments flat.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

aloneness is a bad fiddle I play against my own / burning

I didn't despise myself for being who I was, and I never would. I wouldn't allow anyone to make me feel bad about that. That was a line I could draw in the sand.

Getting an interview with someone is like asking your good-looking cousin to go out with a friend of a friend on a blind date: you must approach the subject Just So.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

So who do you want to be?” I smiled, resting my head against his chest. “I’m not sure yet, but I’m looking forward to finding out.

The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.