His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got...""Well then you've got nothin.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If you worked on it long enough, you know when it's ready.