Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.

Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.

Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

Ben let a slow smile play over his face. He loved this part. It always felt like revealing to a disbeliever that he had magical powers or something.

You know that old saying about home being where the heart is? I don’t think that refers to your own. It’s the hearts of other people, the ones you love, that makes a home.

I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one.

Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.

Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.

We all see the same thing, but interpretive it differently.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

When we have fights in our family, they don't end with an apology. You make up by getting back to normal. Like you'll call and say, 'You want to go shopping?'

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.