Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

Those of you who are convinced that you missed your calling, open all doors keep the entrance way clear. This way you will not miss that next call.

I cared about us. But the cold hard truth was, nothing I said or did could realign the stars.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

I'm not going to give the same energy. I am going to give more of myself. If everyone thinks like that, it's going to be something incredible.

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

Life is when awareness hides in the idea of personal experience.

They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.