We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.

I always listen to you. Except when I don't.

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.

I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

Congrats to Prince William and Kate Middleton, who welcomed a baby girl on Saturday. The royal baby weighed eight pounds - or around 12 American dollars.

Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.

There's something strange about this big pink bunny.

Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.