The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.

You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.

What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.

She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.

When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not, ” I was saying my path would be my own.

You don't get to choose, " Lincoln said. "It's just happening.

The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.

For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.