You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.

At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

How can something so wrong feel so right?

It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

Lochie. The boy I once loved. The boy I still love. The boy I will continue to love, even when my part in this world is over too.

You are the love, the lover, and the beloved.

War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

Love is when you can completely trust one another, you feel like you can conquer the world together, you know that person will be there for you, and most importantly, you make each other laugh.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.