I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Emmy has embarked on her journey to enrich the world with smiles. They are free, healthy, and often, very contagious.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.

She's still small and I still want to put her in my pocket.-Seven Chillman, classmate

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.

There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.

I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.