You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.

You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

We writers are resilient souls.

I miss something I never even had.

I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.