Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.

I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

You need to be happy to live, I don't.

I thank the earth and the sky everyday for the opportunities I’ve had.

A year ago I would’ve been taken in by his chivalry, but now I knew what laid behind the façade: a frog waiting to bite me where it hurt the most given half the chance.

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear>

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

Honestly, if you don’t fit in, then you’re probably doing the right thing.

As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Nowadays, Cubans who enter from Cuba with a visa do not receive any aid.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

You gave me faith to find my dreams, you'll never know just what that means.