“I learned that courage and fear always come as a pair. If you've gone one inside you, you've surely got the other.”

“She said fear is just a flashlight that helps you find your courage.”

“Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true.”

“The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I've learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a person loves another person by the ...”

“Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them.”

“I'm convinced Midnight Gulch can't be the only magical town in the world. I bet there's a snicker of magic on every street, in every old building, every broken heart, every word of a story. Maybe i...”

“To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.”

“You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing t...”

“...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...”