Trying to destroy darkness is like trying to crush water. It will always be a part of you, whether you admit it or not.

Darkness swallows everything, even pain. That’s what makes it so tempting. Comforting. It disguises weakness as strength.

Healing the hurt is much harder than not hurting them at all.

Darkness will come knocking. It will offer everything you never had. But its gift is just a cheap knockoff of something it cannot be. Never accept the hand of the Beast.

Bravery could only be found inside of fear. So she bore the feeling. After all, it was just a feeling.

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Infatuation burns itself out, ' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry--that can last a lifetime.

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

Work hard, do things the right way, and things will go your way.