you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.