Image: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
31 quotes
American writer
“Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.”
"Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing."
on Courage
"A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear."
on Wisdom
"When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?"
on Love
"She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo."
on Fear
"This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection."
"Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside."
on Philosophy
"There's a lesson here, and that is I have to find happiness inside myself before I try to partner again."
on Happiness
"I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever". Maybe because forever is such a scary place."
"Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned."
"Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead."
"Dream bigger before you can't remember to dream at all."
on Dreams
"Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death."
"It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on..."
on Life
"Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end."
"And the scary thing is, I’m on a fast track to that same aviary. Unless I find my wings."
"I think it’s easyto confuse love with other things.Lust, for one. Need, for another"
"It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves."
"The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap."
on Truth
"Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do."
"I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?"
