I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

Don’t get stressed over the little things and make sure you live life to the fullest.

We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

It's just mind-blowingly awesome. I apologize, and I wish I was more articulate, but it's hard to be articulate when your mind's blown-but in a very good way.

I’d signed six things and my stack wasn’t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

God made me and broke the mold.

People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble.