That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

Walking your path doesn't mean you don't hurt, it means the pain is worth the progress. Sometimes you have to break something down in order to remake it, and that includes yourself, or it did for me. There were moments when I wept for an easier road, but in the end I would not trade my path for anyone else's. It is mine and the traveling of it has made me who I am, and continues to shape and remold me into the best, happiest, most productive, most playful me, I've ever been.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.