The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

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.

Do not live life without a spark of love.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomorrow.' But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.

I am an isolationist.

If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

We must acquaint the youth to the realities of the world... we must tell them that millions of people around the world have no access to drinking water.