"Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps."

"Life did come with a manual."

"Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do."

"Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves."

"Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude."

"Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do."

"Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much."

"We like to think we're in control but we never are."

"As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her."

"I had no money to start,For Jack decreed in his pride:The Caveman's wife didn't work - It was his job to provide.A brief reminder right here:Let men believe they are shrewd,But even women of oldEmbroidered mittens for food."

"There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about."

"It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'."

"Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live."

"When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops."

"Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter."

"How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing."

"It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings."

"Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind."

"There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb."

"Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell."

"Dear Teenage Self,That guy you're crazy about,Will ask you out On a dateIn about ten years, so don't fretYou'll get there yet.But fate is cruelOn that day,That feeling will have gone away."

"Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil."

"Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together."

"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in."

"Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing."

"One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge."

"Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true."

"What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry."

"Nobody ever goes before their time."

"The praise and glorification of God doesn't exclusively spring from deep and untroubled understanding, it is in spite of " and even because of " deep and troubled circumstance."

"Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience."

"How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident."

"I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine."

"It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right."

"The horizon changes but the sun does not."

"Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit."

"They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour."

"If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me."

"When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B."

"Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels."

"Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?"

"There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret."

"Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else."

"But that was just a shadow of what would come to pass:When one appointed season Christ came to die at last.And in the name of justice they flogged him like a thief,But willing was the victim of human disbelief."

"When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it."

"I am bothered by poems I don't understand."

"If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why."

"Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones."

"She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section."

"Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you."