“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

The past is obdurate.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

How can he be perfect? Everything he ever makes, dies.

Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.

Either push your limits or die.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume.

Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death.