When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.