The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.