Every accepted public quote

“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

“Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?' 'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.”

“My atoms love your atoms, it's chemistry.”

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventua...”

“Man is the cruelest animal.”

“Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but...”

“We're facing the apocalypse, there is not enough tea in the world to calm me.”

“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely...”

“I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.”

“Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...”

“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”

“I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.”

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

“Live to the point of tears.”

“There are dream worth following and dreams worth chasing...and then there are dreams worth growing wings and flying for”

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

“The bombs were coming-and so was I.”

“At birth we are provided seeds to sow, but the amount and quality are not equal; the wealthy acquire high quality and limitless amounts, while the poor received the opposite; therefore, the...”

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like...”

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

“I've heard some writers say things like, 'Well, I'm a professional writer. I only start books I know I can finish.' I look at it maybe the other way: I only want to write books I'm not sure...”

“Love gives value to the one who loves and not to the loved one.”

“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incid...”

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”

“My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos.”

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”

“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“Know that the days that are alike are only the illusion of a reality created by your mind.”

“I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.”

“I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear...”

“God is clever, but not dishonest.”

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest...”

“She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it d...”

“What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so...”

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”