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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."

"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."

"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."

"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."

"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."

"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."

"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."

"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer."
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"So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream."

"But it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?"

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it."

"She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I didn't see how this was any different from the way she looked down on people for being Christians."

"When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along."

"Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't."

"I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?"

"A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up."
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