It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.

The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile.

Your rebel soul shines like a diamond pulled from dust: bright, clear and flawless.

Moments caught in time. Simple memories spread out before me. Timeless reminders of how life goes on, even when it feels as if you cannot.

Hopes, wants and wishes, all cast across the night sky with my heart in tow.

Second chances are not that important. What's important, is being ready when the first chance is given.

Broken hearts mend but souls forever fight the battle.

I think everything good and right in this world should be put on vinyl.

the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.

Define yourself

Be at peace with yourself and with all men.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.