It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

Problems don't get better with time they become better when you find bravery. Success demands that you fight your fears.

Whoever hate, harm himself.

How long will you fake at living life? What will it take for you to see the beauty you've neglected while wearing the dirty lies expected of you?

It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.

After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

Joy is the best makeup.

The best part of living in constant terror is you always have a place to live.

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.

The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.