The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

You know, the heart is meant to be your life support, I was a fool to give her my heart. She affected my life support greatly and I know that I will never be the same without her again.

Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.

I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

Surround yourself with "yay-sayers" not "naysayers."

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.