When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Every season has an end~for a harvest to begin. Embrace the process!

No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.

Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm.

I try not to bore my readers.

The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.