The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

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.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

It hurts so good and I feel euphoric after . . . yoga people on a whole are super cool and everyone is there to work on their own thing.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

I am young, but I have been through a lot.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

I never want it to be a point where I'm so comfortable that I'm slacking.