There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.
Frustration often steers you to the right path.
If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.
One mistake is all they see.
They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.
I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
Life is a curriculum unique to every student.
There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.
Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.
Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.
For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety.
Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.
Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.
Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.
You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.
Not all friends know they have lost you.
When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.
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