If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.