There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

You should enjoy the freedom. Sometimes a bit of time helps you see what matters.

Visualize yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself into an excellent person, with constant practice and perseverance. Enjoy and relish the process.

Love is divine and pure.

just find your way, like a river settling into its bed, and the sigh of the wind over a lake, light but restful... content with the joy in the arc of an arm throwing a ball for a dog to fetch

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.