Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

I'll never love you anymore than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than Ido, right this second.

In 50 years it won't matter if he's handsome, ugly, or dumb as a post, just try to find someone who don't make you want to shove a pitchfork up his nose.

God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises “before the nations.” We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers

There is nothing like the love or a child.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

E-books are impervious to analogy.

IF THE LORD IS OUR JOY, OUR JOY CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY. IT CANNOT BE LOST...JOY HAD COME TO THE WORLD, AND IT HAD COME TO STAY.