The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them.

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.

How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?

The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs.

You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.

It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.

Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

No one-liner can ever be optimal.

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.