She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

The only way to get over the pain is to face it, embrace it, hug it and learn the lessons embedded within it.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

Destiny's Child was a part of me; I was blessed to even have that experience, but this is me doing my thing and that's all I can do.

Hearts understand in ways our minds cannot.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

You know sometimes words have two meanings.