That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you could’ve been any other way.

Acting like you don't care is not letting it go.

Letting yourself be vulnerable isn't always a weakness. Sometimes it can be a conscious decision to draw the other person out.

Experience is the best teacher.

If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.

The point is some people think they have a leading role when, really, they're just supporting cast.

Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that.

Isn't it about time you fought back?

I want to feel what’s mine. What’s always been mine.

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.

But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he’d come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.

A writer is a thought smith

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

Be bold in your caring, and be bold in your dreaming.

There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.

My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!