Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things.

That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.

Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely alone.

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

It's better to say goodbye, to move on, to end the lie.

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.

I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.

The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.

A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.

Oh my God, I'm not anorexic. I acknowledge that I look thin in photos. I get it.