“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”

“So,' he says. 'When's the big day? Have you set a date yet?''What?' I startle. 'For what?''For the day you're going to stop being such a dumbass,' he says shooting me a sharp look.'Oh.' I cringe. K...”

“Because I was dying.And Warner couldve let me die. He was angry and hurt and had every reason to be bitter. Id just ripped his heart out; Id let him believe something would come of our relationship...”

“I'm in love with you.""Good grief." She kept walking.”

“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.”

“The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.”

“Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.We laughed, knowing that better men would come,And greater wars: whe...”

“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”