“Tonight started innocently enough. Most terrible things do, right?”

“For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.”

“victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isnt a victory. Its the end of us.”

“Sounds naive respecting someone who doesn't give a shit about you.”

“I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.”

“This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.”

“In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.”

“What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.”

“I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!”