So he earns your undying love by reading a book under a tree?" Cole said dryly. "Why didn't I ever try that approach? I like books and trees.

I dreamed of you every night. It felt so real. And when I'd wake up the next morning, it was like your disappearance was fresh. Like you'd left me all over again.

Despite all the other factors that had contributed to my fate, in the end it was my decision that destroyed my life. And all the hurt I was enduring now was my doing. The blame rested solely with me.

Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.

Sometimes... Sometimes our hearts...crack a little.

Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.

Never focus on the end. Only focus on your first step.

Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart.

In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.

I tell him there'll be an army waiting for him, and your friend is only concerned with the color of their uniforms. What's this really about?"Max shrugged. "A girl."I glared at Max. "Dude. Shut up.

What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life.

Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.

We dont vote in Northern Ireland for what we want, we vote against what we dont want.

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.