Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible.

The follower is as important as the leader.

Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

Problems are God's resistance to create spiritual muscles.