Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

You only know you love her when you let her go.

You see all I need is a whisper in a world that only shouts.

If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low.

Elvis ate America before America ate him.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

When you give 100 percent to another person, two literally become one.