A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong

God planned for our lives to connect. Let's make sure we keep it that way.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

Shut off the internal bashing.

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way and his timing.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

Trevor was as menacing as he was gorgeous. If he were a vampire, he'd be the dark kind, the kind that sneaks up on innocent girls and bites without a thought.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

Life. Consider the alternative.

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

I feel like dying when I'm helpless

Meet the most important living person! That person is you.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.