The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Only write if you can't not.

There is a huge difference between living a Christian life and living a religious life

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.

If it's not a hit, switch.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.

I am a naturally curious person. -Tris