When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think.

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.

While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.

All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.

They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.

'We have to be back in three hours,' Ronan said. 'I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.' 'This,' Gansey replied, 'is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.'

I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said. Blue replied sarcastically. "Okay, God.

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.

Not at all. You look as though magic has taken hold of you. It must be magic because I don't know how you can draw like that. I can barely manage a stick figure.

God's love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God’s grace—not earned by your works.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.