I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Read a short story every day.

Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences.

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

He’d been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.

Perhaps the word perfect is just an illusion isn't it ?

Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

We still seek no wider war.

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.