I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

My mom doesn't post on Facebook, but she'll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can.

It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the mercy of a man, the man would not, could not, refuse.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised

There's a lot of overconfidence about this bill. We're going to expose it. It will not pass.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.