Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

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.

I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it.

Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.

Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

I don't have any social media. I'm pretty clueless, but I guess I did it would probably be something around food.

Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving