What if just you and I hung out, like last summer?" Nick sat up and began twirling a lock of my wet hair around his finger. "Josh never needs to know.

I think it's time you got a summer love of your own until lover boy sees he need to ditch Gina.

Absolutely. No more pretending!

I'm not that good of an actor to fake something like that.

Don't wait for what you don't have. Use what you have, begin now and what you don't even expect will come alongside with excess of what you expect. Go, make it happen.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.