The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain you caused them is that same pain you feel now.

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.

Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.

I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences.

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.

You don't have to be good all the times. It's okay to be hurt sometimes. It's okay to feel lost like you're wandering around the dark. It's the bad days that make the good ones so much better.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

You want to spend your millions on a worthless cause? Try donating it to the Democrats.

Love is serene and calm

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.