This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

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.

I have not yet begun to fight!

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

There is no fighter smarter than me.

My career has been a bit strange. I dont think it took the normal route.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

I want to be comfortable on TV. If I'm comfortable, they're comfortable watching me. I think nothing's more icky than watching icky on TV.

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

I usually play disenfranchised youth

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.