But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls, ' he wrote back, 'This is my home.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things.

That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Two things amazes me the most, the beauty of nature and the power of my thoughts.

Belief is both a marvelous and a terrible thing. Belief makes things real.

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.

I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.