After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

The fear of losing each other is always stronger than the pain we cause.

I had a feeling that Harvey wore his shotgun around the house like a pair of holey underwear.

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream.

If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like "Yeah! Burgers are cool!"

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...