true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Life shouldn’t be about survival alone but about living

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Joy is the life of man's life.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)