I think I miss Ben, ” she told Lauren one night. “No, you don’t, ” Lauren said. “But sometimes, I really think I do.” Lauren sighed. “Isabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That’s all.

This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

Failure is an opportunity to learn again

That's the whole problem, isn't it?" He turned his face toward the night sky and let out a horrible laugh, like a gasp of pain. "Why are you the only person who's allowed to be strong?

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.