48 Quotes by Matt de la Pena

Stars shine long after they’ve flamed out and the shine they shine with is love.

We only reveal what we want other people to know, right? It’s like we create fictional characters for the public. And inside we’re somebody totally different.

I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I’m already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea.

He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look.

Some people watch the world with their ears.

So, he was breathing ice now? Great. He couldn’t even have dinner with friends without some random new power messing everything up.

When I finish a book, I’ll go to that file and look through them. And I’ll say, these are three that really excite me and I want to do them next. You have the business part; of those three, is the publisher excited about one? Is the agent?

And sometimes when her light brown eyes locked on to my dark brown ones, it was like she was reaching a hand all the way into my chest, like she was digging around in there for the most honest thing she could find.

It’s not stuff you leave with. It’s love.