Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

The less I have, the less I can lose.

You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.

You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

God knows who you are! God knows why you are here! Don’t live a different you! Don't disappoint God!

Tobias: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don’t seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.

Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.

One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather have relatives than a book.

If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.