You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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.

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.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

Remember this: You are the expert of your body.

I may not have all the time I thought I had.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control, there is only consent!

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

It's not that I wear fantastic clothes, it's just that clothes look fantastic on me.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.