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

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.