Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

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.

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

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.

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

This is your story and you get to decide how it's written.

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.

[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their children before they think about themselves.