Death is when the monsters get you.

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.

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

We must pray for our leaders, to rule in righteousness.

Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.

Gie me a spark o' nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

There are no victims, only volunteers.