Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

There is no change without sacrifice.

I just didn't like going to school.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.