Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.

But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.

We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them.

It is not age but experience that brings wisdom.

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.