What-ifs are for fools

there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

You seem to be attracted to trouble," he said. "Yeah, she's real pretty," I replied. "Your tongue is sharper than mine ever was." I stuck out my tongue and tried to look at the tip of it.

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

impossible is not a word

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued.

When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

Make yourself worthy of money and money will make itself worthy of you.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.