Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

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.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Sometimes, we become afraid to change because others judgment and opinions. Then, we making puerile excuses to please others, not ourselves.

It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.

He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it.

When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't change it for the world - I love what I learn every single day.

True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.