The universe doesn't hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough.

He searched for my gaze and the second he found it, I cracked a smile. “There it is.” He palmed his chest again and sighed. “All is right in the world again.

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Writer's block: when your imaginary friends stop talking to you.

Little by little people are understanding that we need to change, but whatever we decide to do in next 10 to 15 years will decide the future of biodiversity on Earth.

Some people need God and some people need science.

We got to pray just to make it today.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

The attack on unions has been far more extreme here [in U.S], and it has been much more successful.

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.