Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

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?

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.

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness.

The night and the streets were ours and the future lay sparkling ahead.And we thought we would know each other forever.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts.

My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.