You wanna go see my old bedroom?”“Is that a pickup line?”“Come on inside and you’ll find out.”How was a girl supposed to resist an offer like that?

She was the only one who made him hear music. The only one who made him feel home. The only one who wanted nothing more than for him to be plain, simple Will Truitt.

They hadn’t been good months. About as ugly as a wet warthog and as messed up as a bumblebee in a snowstorm.

Some days, Will wished he could’ve been like Mikey. Living it up, having fun, embracing the moment. But Will had never been the kind who could keep his heart out of it.

Like Momma says, only thing you get by digging dirt is dirty.

Did you call someone and tell them you’re safe?”“Called and told ’em I’m not dead. Not so sure about safeyet.

You could make friends with a possessed unicorn, couldn’t you?”“Probably so. We both fart rainbows.

Cinna slid down the bar, sassing three groomsmen andwinking at a fourth on her way.“I totally get why some animals eat their young, ” Pepper said.

Though everyone who mattered to him told him to walk away, though Lindsey herself told him to walk away, he was still here. And she was still glad.

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

The reality I submerse myself in when writing, is far greater than the physical reality surrounding me at work!

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.