Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark.

When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe.

I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye

I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you.

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

What is a man but another man's memory

Grace allows for questions ... and is the answer!" EL

To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.

I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.