Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye.

I won't give up on us

You know you are changing when you are moving towards something bigger than yourself. Your Life!

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

You can't be all things to all people.

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

Photo of POTUS mtg w speechwriters Cody Keenan and Jon Favreau today.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.