“How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily?”

“The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.”

“We didn't talk much, and the silence hung like a silk curtain, light and lovely.”

“Maybe that's what love issacrificing yourself to save another, taking the insult or taking the hit.”

“He reminds me of a comfortable sweater that you pull on, knowing it will keep you warm every time.”

“Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie.”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”