The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Lee explained to her that art for art’s sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can’t be living a life driven by need and desire.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

The nice thing about solo is I don't have to coordinate with anyone else's schedule, since it's hard for me just to have a free 15 minutes here and there.

It was the sinner that Christ came to help.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

My life is not balanced and not everything is perfect all the time.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper