Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

What good's a captive without her captor?

Someone wise told me recently that Adulting was hard. My response: TRUE STORY

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

Is that all?" she whispered.Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Cats definitely have their own opinions.

I started doing yoga.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.

I went to a restaurant with my friend, and he said, "Pass the salt." I said, "Screw you! Sit closer to the salt."