Forgiving’s a choice you make – a gift you give to somebody even if they don’t deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that’s alive in your heart. That’s the one you have to write.
But they can’t know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can’t get out of the dark hole. ‘Peace is here’ it whispers.
If I can’t wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I’ll wait for you in heaven.
Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They’re always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.
Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.
Everybody dies; that’s a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.
People can’t help the way they look, just the way they act.
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.
When you’re up against a superior enemy, sometimes it’s okay to just bow out gracefully.
She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.
For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.
In truth, I don’t want to be there. I don’t want to see the light go out of my brother’s eyes.
I’ll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.
The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.
I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.
So long as one person remembers you, you’ll never really be dead.
Nobody gets to pick what life gives them.
On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.
Love is patient and trusting; it doesn’t hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.