Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

No doubt.. Endings are hard, but then again.. nothing ever really ends, does it??

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.

It's not that I'm so smart.

Apparently I had a boner in the acceptance video

If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

We is always so much better than I.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.