“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”

“People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”

“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”

“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and al...”

“Stories are a different kind of true.”

“Shes wild, unpredictable and dangerous as hell. Not just to my sanity, but to my health. Shes the kind of girl you know youll want forever with and forever will still not be enough. But shes not th...”

“Dont fall in love with me, She whispered harshly, a sob catching in her throat. I know you probably think Im egotistical saying this, but I need your promise that you wont do that. If you want to s...”

“Everybodys damaged. Its just a question of how badly, and whether youre healing or still bleeding.”

“Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.”

“Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.”

“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When hes done good and made things easy for everybody? That aint the time at all. Its when hes at his lowestand he cant believe in hi...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”