There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not ‘til the day he dies. Not even then.

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance