You don’t get to break someone's heart and think everything is fine just because you say sorry. That's just not fair.

Ever been so happy for someone and so aware of how lonely their happiness makes you feel at the same time?

Please." It's one word, but the way I say it means so much more. Please don’t say anything. Please don’t look at me. Please don’t hurt me. Please just stay away. Please.

Make each day, the best day of life.

You make me want things that I can't have.

Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

The world is the same everywhere.

Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.