If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things.

That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.

Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely alone.

The ultimate purpose of a teacher is to teach students to think in a better way.

Fearing the wind that causes the shaking branch directs you to where energy is needed for improving your life.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.

Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.

I've plenty of bows to my string.