Life is about juggling obligations, Valerie. You need to study smarter, not harder.

Everything she knew about him rushed through her mind like a tidal wave.

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.

Fear blossomed within her - not like a flower, but like blood welling from a gunshot wound, spreading throughout her entire body.

If she was going to die she wanted to go out with chocolate in one hand and a shopping bag in the other.

If you know what you want, you find the strength to work for its fulfillment.

Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'

When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

I try to go through my reads and then, if I have the option to run, I do run.

New York is like a vacation - no beach required.