The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are

That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.

Love is a secret society, a community for two.

He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

And then I noticed the dandelions.

What you truly own, is what you have inside you. Everything else can be destroyed, robbed or wasted.

Men are not angels, ” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I don't dress to be stared at. I dress for myself.

The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.

Law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it.

The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone one may draw from It.

The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.