Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

As a doc, though, I’ve seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn’t always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They’ll do things they never thought...

There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity.Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or...

Follow your heart. Just don’t get lost.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

You really didn’t appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

Why can’t you like me?” he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. “Why can’t...

What you couldn’t see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

Raccoon.” She saw Ellie put a hand to her mouth to cover the giggles and then looked back at Tom. “Like, you caught it?””Well, it sure didn’t get Fed-Exed […]

Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, youdon’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and somepeople scar so nicely....

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.

They call it the drowning instinct. It’s when drowning doesn’t look like drowning. (pg. 241)

….. desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.

…she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.