Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking. - Cecilia to Henry Chinaski

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.

You can believe that you are neither a slave to inspiration nor its master, but something far more interesting - its partner - and that the two of you are working together toward something intriguing...

Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable {food, shelter, medicine, rule of law, social order, community and...

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one's life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river...

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius.

There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough.

Our prayer is that as you read, you'll be struck not by the contents of this book, but by the book it's helping you open up; and that you'll praise not the author of this book, but the One he is...

You have to imagine things before you can do them. Stories help us see.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

Shining brighter than the snow outside, Aelin lifted her chin and began her final walk home.

A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I have often been asked where the inspiration for my books comes from. I wouldn’t know how to answer. On the journey of life, I accumulate experiences that get imprinted in the deepest layers of...

Do you know, in general, how strong God has made you? How strong and good He has made you?

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

Mad Hatter: Am I going mad?Alice: Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret.All the best people are.

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand

If I can give one bit of advice to any drama major, high school theater kid, or inmate who is reading this in a prison library with dreams of being cast in he prison play, its this: write your own...

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.

She felt like she'd slipped into another world. For the first time someone knew exactly what the hurt felt like.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.