Couches and tables and beds don’t make a home. Home is where you feel less alone.

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

I ached with loss that I’d never allowed myself to feel. As if I was leaving something important behind. And that something was me.

Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know.

There was something comforting about believing in things that didn’t exist.

In the darkness, she listened to the silence. She wallowed in the beautiful nothing it made.

But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn’t make you matter any less.

Because nothing was sacred. Not in this world. Not in stones. Not in trees. Not in legacies. Certainly not in love.

Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale.

Change is coming, she whispered to the bugs bouncing off her window. You can’t escape it.

Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.

The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their connectedness with the real world.

The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.

I love Florida. I love the beach. I love the sound of the crashing surfers against the rocks.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.

I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

What do Obama and God have in common? Neither has a birth certificate. How do they differ? God does not think he's Obama.

Teen Wolf has more heart then Buffy