You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.

Do you love me, Rain?""More than I knew it was possible to love. All the stars will fall from the heavens before I ever stop.

All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Woman absent is woman dead.

All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

words can never get at the truth.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.