You were the best friend I ever had, Allie. I'd still like to be friends, even if you are engaged, and even if it is just for a couple of days.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

I am afraid to die, though, ' I whispered to myself. These turned out to be my last words. They were not very impressive words, but it was too late to change them.

Never let the story beat you home.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

I want to show what hard work and dedication and sacrifice can achieve.

People don't like to buy things that are going down.