If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.