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46 quotes
American author (born 1971)
“It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.”
"Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different."
on Hope
"There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice."
on Life
"Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him."
on Identity
"I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it."
on Wisdom
"It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it."
on Inspirational
"Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight."
on Truth
"Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light."
"Vanity, thy name is vampire."
on Humor
"I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers."
"Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time."
on Death
"Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it makes you vulnerable."
on Fear
"Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been."
"Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are."
on Perception
"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."
"I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane."
"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family."
on Relationships
"There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure."
on Family
"You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!"
"Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it."
"Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."
