You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.