That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

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.

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down " he answered.

Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts.

If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Hillary Clinton's guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run for president.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities