I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

Things hurt and then don't hurt and hurt again.

Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.

Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever...

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]

We cherish the chance to say thank you in person to Cpl. Frank Buckles.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

All talking is good, negative and positive. Stabbing is bad; talking is good.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.