Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn't believe in it. There was nothing but this.

Almost every rapper has a track that talks about their dreams.

I never really had a strong accent.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.

[Michelle Malkin] has been supporting a party which includes most of the idiots in this country who would judge her entirely and exclusively on her [Filipino] appearance.

I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.