To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.