His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

He searched for my gaze and the second he found it, I cracked a smile. “There it is.” He palmed his chest again and sighed. “All is right in the world again.

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world.

The universe doesn't hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough.

I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.

When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

I never saw a U-Haul behind a hearse.

I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

Kayla Robinson, if you don't shut up I'll fly down there and suck every last bit of blood from your stupid cheating cow body!

I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or a belief in something better. It's something that drives us.

Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?