At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.

Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Anne Romaine collected her own parallel archive to [Alex] Haley.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

Begin to know Him now, and finish never