That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

Awareness of your shortcomings is a strengthening process.

I'm not a cruel man. I mean, technically I'm not a man at all.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.