The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

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.

I'll think of you, just like I promised.""And I'll think of you, just like I have every day, " Tamani said.

We must remember each day we wake up that, there is something best to think about always than the better things we think about always

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit.

Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

I love life. There's always something to overcome, new people to meet... You've just got to find your bliss and go after it. That's where the drive is, that's how you find your special place.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.