Image: Susan Solie-Patterson, CC BY-SA 3.0
24 quotes
American author
“But what is life if you don't live it?”
"If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work."
on Life
"The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it."
on Crime
"Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need.""
on Faith
"Regret is a waste of time."
"The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective."
on Death
"There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books."
on Writing
"Denial is not just a river in Egypt."
on Humor
"You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading."
"Because today after all, is all we knew."
"Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation."
"People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.~Angel"
on Identity
"Love means never having to be apart"
on Love
"It's been said that love finds you when you're ready."
"maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside"
"To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind."
on Mental Health
"Write the story. Don't write sentences."
"Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?"
"I never miss a good chance to shut up"
"I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together,"
"The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass."
on Truth
