Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

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.

People don't have to do things by half measures because they aren't getting paid for it. In fact, that's all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

He speaks of you only with the greatest pride, Will

Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

We did what we are supposed to. We protected home. We have to try to do it again Thursday night.

So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'

Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did.

Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.