You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.
You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.
When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.
When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied beca...
Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive, sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.
Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor
Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were th...
Life turns on a dime.
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various...
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they're like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If yo...
Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks
FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying
Case Closed, de Gerald Posner; Legend, de Edward Jay Epstein (una chifladura a lo Robert Ludlum, pero divertida); Oswald: un misterio americano, de Norman Mailer; y Mrs. Paine’s Garage, de Thomas Mall...
Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.
As Lily Cavenaugh says in The Talisman (and it was Peter Straub's line, not mine), You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don't believe it, you were never really fat or really poor.
And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. someone may say. It seems to occur to fe...