It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

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.

My brain fizzles. The 'this is your brain on drugs' warning, should also issue a 'this is your brain when Jackson Reid looks at you like that, ' warning.

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

Even though I approached girls relentlessly, I wasn't really approachable myself.

MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

I do bookstore signings, and it seems to me that I get a variety of men and women, more women than I'd expect, and grown-ups among my readers.

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.