This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.

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.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

The day you start giving importance to the life of even a little fly, you turn into a holy man!

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

A grateful heart ... comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives.

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?