Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.

He said he owned the land, He said he owned the sea, Through his sweet lies and manipulation, He was trying to own me

Life and death played out before my very eyes. You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

Men build society and society builds men.

Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

Help me to change the world is an invitation to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be free of superstitions and lies. And I'm not asking you to try to change the world. Don't try: just do it.