She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison" He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life." "Ah, " she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.

You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.

I am Sunai, ” he said. “I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

Yeah, I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

Don’t tell me you’re afraid of heights, ” she said, shimmying along the edge.“Not heights, ” he murmured. “Just falling.

Sing you a song and steal your soul.

There are no monsters in the dark.

Even if surviving wasn't simple, or easy, or fair.Even if he could never be human.He wanted the chance to matter.He wanted to live.

For one, dazzling, infinite moment, August felt like he was standing on a precipice, the end of one world and the beginning of another, a whisper and a bang.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!

For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Writing and rewriting are the same thing to me. I don't believe what Allen Ginsberg said that "first thought, then - " I just don't believe that.