Quotes

"My favorite quote in the world is this one."

"I’ve had the kind of bad day no quote can fix."

"Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions."

"He smiled at me shyly and took a step closer. I froze, heart pounding, as he put one hand on my cheek and leaned toward me. I swallowed, gazing up at him with what I hoped was an expectant (and not alarmed) expression. He bent his head toward mine and..."

"She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing."

"I write because he needs to know."

"My spirit is free. My heart is taken."

"I think sometimes in literature we kind of police ourselves. I know a lot of people talked about Twilight, and they would say, oh, but the heroine, she lets this man make her decisions. And I thought, that may not be the particular fantasy or trope that works for me. But listen man, I read Wuthering Heights. I wanted me a little Heathcliff action. I mean, why can't we indulge that fantasy and also be like, “And now I would like the ERA passed, please. Also, this lipstick is fuckin' killer."

"Hang on! Don’t give up."

"And sometimes being in love is not enough to make it work."

"My favorite thing is when people underestimate me."

"He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!"

"Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization—of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny."

"Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying."

"Money doesn't make the things you need. People do."

"I miss her | & not the type of missing when you’re alone, not the type when you’re broken down half drunk, not even the type when you know she’s the one. I’m talking about the kind of missing that when you’re full of happiness…you wish they were there to enjoy it. I don’t care if we’re not together, I don’t care if I never see her again. All that I will every know is I’m here smiling & I know how much she’d like to see that."

"A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page..."

"You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give."

"As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live."

"The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it."