No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

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.

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

Just because it is not done your way, doesn't mean it is not right.

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

It's fun to deal with the terror and the huge highs and lows of things. We're still getting massive surprises, anytime there's any Twilight-related event or anything.