Maybe I shouldn’t mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.

I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.

Streams of melting snow.

Why does everyone keep asking me that?" Seriously, did I look like some sort of pyscho assassin? Maybe it was the pink sneakers. Or the heart earrings?

She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced with cupcakes. Mmm. Cupcakes.

Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of a stubborn, headstrong teenager.” “And you love me for it.” “I do.

What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?

A great meal is an experience that nourishes more than your body.

You do not know what you have and how you are blessed until you have nothing..Count all your blessings.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

Trying to fix another person will only add to my anxiety. Letting Jesus work on me is where real progress can happen.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.