“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of...

“One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.”

“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”

“It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.”

“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

“If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

“[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you...

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

“My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me........”

“I see you're determined to miss my point."<br /> "If you're point is that there was a pretty girl in the room and it was distracting you, then I think I've...

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die

“I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s...

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she...

Nicholas Sparks<br /> “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving...

“In secret we met -<br /> In silence I grieve,<br /> That thy heart could forget,<br /> Thy spirit deceive.<br /> If I should meet thee<br...

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”