It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.

There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.

It's the sound of the sea that makes you believe in mermaids.

Ruexner will pay dearly for this, " Valten promised, speaking to no one in particular, but imagining he had the fiend's neck between his hands. If he dared hurt Gisela...

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.