Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, "There's something we need to tell you," and from the look on Andrew's face, I think he expected Derek to say he'd gotten me pregnant.

You've got to stop eating unhealthy crap. You've got to eat vegetables, fruit and lean meat.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

My reason for coming out isn't to be some sort of hero.