Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 27, 1970
If you want me you're going to have to come and get me..
I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I e….
I would have remembered the good stuff. Nobody ever remembers the good stuff..
Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt..
Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not….
The question is one of faith. Faith in my talent. Faith in my decisions. And faith in the idea that the truth, even if it can’t pay my bills, can sti….
And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the….
It sounds silly, I know. But for me, the power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the deepest cuts lie. Like a ….
No one commits suicide because they want to die..
Just knowing you exist changed the world for me..
Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't….
Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?.
I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence..
Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain..
There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can't. So we write them down. Or we paint them. Or we sing about them. It's our only option.….
Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost..
Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a litt….
I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed….
I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear making you fea….
We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their ch….
And when Paul dove to embrace me, the look on his face was one of absolute, perfect joy—the kind of joy that can't be reproached, stolen, or marred—t….