Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on.

You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.

Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

It’s a tricky art, working with them in their purest form, ” she mused. “Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex.” It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.

Life is full of screwups, " he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

The difficulty is not making a decision, it's living with the consequences.

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.