They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

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.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians.

[photography]... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way.

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.