Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

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Conflict is the soul of literature.

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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

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Home is where your books are.

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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

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Anger is really disappointed hope

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