You'll get through this. And I know it's impossible to believe right now, but it gets better. Trust me.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.

«Per­ho­nen is not here any­more, » it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.

Love is by far the most important thing of all.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

I always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.

Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.