There is no God, there is only what you want.

You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones: Was, did, had, made, went, looked... One-size-fits-all looks like crap on anyone. Sew yourself a custom made suit. Pick a better verb. Challenge all those verbs to really lift some weight for you.

How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.