The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

the only thing left to do is love

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Since I had a soft spot for zombies and my curiosity was killing me, I opted for plan Z.

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

I ate a rabbit for you.""Is that supposed to be romantic?""Why? Do you want it to be romantic?"Trent and Kiara, Scarred

Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.