Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.

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.

To understand the truth of everything, it took guts more than simply thinking.

Things, events and people align and position themselves accordingly when a strong enough thought stirs them.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

Religion is pointing toward the moon

Will you stay with me ” she asked. Her voice was the thinnest whisper almost canceled out by a low groan of thunder.... Forever ” he whispered back. The sweet sound of his voice filled her up.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

I will feast on enemies of Ra until my belly is full!” “Charming,” Sadie whispered.