“I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.”

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

I love to write the weird and creepy stuff!

And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.

I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.

A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

Power isn’t control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others.

It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.

Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.

I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.