Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.

It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.