Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.