He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time, " she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.

Waiting accentuates our helplessness, ant that is what God seems committed to revealing. Only when we know ourselves to be helpless do we fully experience his grace and glory. We have to wait for it.

It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible ofimprovement

Most people inherit success and fame

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

I always have something going on.

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

I am not my sister's keeper. I am my sister.

I just want everybody to have a good time, because I'm goin' out to have a good time. I'm going to go have some fun.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

People work in the system. Management creates the system