I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.

We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.

But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.

When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.

You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must bethe ultimate believer in yourself!

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you" (102). - Tony Gonzalez, "The Giant Within

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart for fueling my motivation.

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

I didn't say them things that I said.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.

I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.

I keep thinking I'm a grown up, but I'm not.