No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.

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.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

If soulmates did exist I am pretty sure they would never divorce you, dump you, kick you out, separate from you or make you an option. They would never give up because you meant that much to them.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

Most TV shows are about strong characters and strong actors, and we certainly have those.

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun.

Education can change the scope of an entire family