Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

Anna, " he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

If traveling was free, you'd never see me again.

There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.