The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.

Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.

Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.