The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

This is what I want so don't be sad.

No, " I say. "I didn't know that, " and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty.

By all means, learn beyond the classroom. In the end, thats all that will matter

Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

Power is as power does.

I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

I am for religion, against religions.

Good morning, this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day.