One of the things I love about books is being able to define and condense certain portions of a character’s life into chapters. It’s intriguing, because you can’t do this with real life. You can’t...

The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than...

I didn’t fall in love with you tate, I flew..

… when things get too good and too right and too perfect, it’s only because the ugly twist hasn’t yet infiltrated the goodness of it all…

Breckin, this is Holder. Holder is not my boyfriend, but if I catch him trying to break the record for best first kiss with another girl, then he’ll soon be my not breathing non-boyfriend.

Art is just an expression. An expression isn’t the same as an act, as much as it sometimes feels that way.

When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful.

Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective

There will be days that I don’t think we’ll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.

It’s killing me because I don’t want you to go another day without knowing how I feel about you. And I’m not ready to tell you I’m in love with you, because I’m not. Not...

{…} Is he always this angry? Is he always so charming when he isn’t busy being angry? I hate that he is either one way or the other and never in between. It would be...

How your heart can possibly find a way to love and trust a man again proves that I’ve fallen in love with the bravest woman I’ve ever known. I know how much courage it took...

I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings.

Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?” she laughs. “Impressive.

It feels sort of euphoric, like we’re in some sort of fairytale. Like she’s Tinkerbell and I’m Peter Pan. No, wait. I don’t want to be Peter Pan. Maybe she can be like Cinderella and...

I’m kissing you because sometimes I can’t not kiss you.

Regret is counterproductive. It’s looking back on a past that you can’t change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.

I’ve never looked forward before. I’ve always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I’ve never once...

people don’t get to choose who they fell in love with. they only get to choose who they stay in love with..

—,Hope? ,Me prometes algo? —Sí —le digo.—,Sabes a veces, cuando tu papa te hace llorar? —,Me prometes que cuando él te haga sentir triste, siempre pensaras en el cielo? —Pero, ,por qué? —Porque sí. —Vuelve...

I can already tell he isn’t the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He’s the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me.

And I realized . . . justnow . . . that God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take thebeautiful things in life for granted.

I live you, Sky

She’s familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.

I didn’t mean to scare you. I’m not suicidal if that’s what’s freaking you out. I’m not fucked up in the head. I’m not deranged. I’m not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. I’m just a...

Whatever connection we thought we had before this…it doesn’t compare to this moment. No matter what happens between us in life, this moment has just merged pieces of our souls together. Well always have that,...

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

My heart made it’s choice, and it chose you.

I absolutely, positively hate this beautiful, magical feeling.

My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past.

Because it’s not muscles that make men strong. Secret do. The more secret you keep, the stronger you are on the inside.

You sort of don’t find me attractive? That can also mean you sort of do find me attractive.

Sometimes life doesn’t happen in chronological order.

Every time the song looped, all I heard was the part about the lies – and how they weigh you down. Tonight, as I drive toward Detroit in my Jeep, I know what those words...

I can’t do it anymore… The way you consume my mind when we aren’t together? I don’t have time for it anymore. I’ve got more important things to think about now than your little weak...

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town ’cause nothing happens here that doesn’t happen there.

You probably faked passing out the other day, just so you could be carried in my hot, sweaty, manly arms.

No puedes enfadarte con un final real. Algunos de ellos son feos. Son los falsos felices para siempre los que deberían enojarte. No todo el mundo tiene un felices para siempre. La vida es real...

His fingers have been slowly lacing through my hair.

This girl is the rest of my life.

No, I mean earlier. Where’d you go? You weren’t here with me because no, nothing happened. I could see on your face that something was wrong, so I didn’t do it. But now you need...

I saw you in bed with my boyfriend last night. I really don’t appreciate you getting massage oil on my cucumbers. Whore.” I laugh and it feels odd, laughing out loud at my own thoughts....

And life definitely doesn’t want me To just let it tell me that the girl I met,The beautiful, amazing, strong, resilient girlThat I fell so hard forShould only come in thirdLife knows.Life is trying to...

She smiles when she sees me. That’s it. All she did just now was smile, but all of a sudden, my chest is on fire, and it feels as if a wave of heat just...

Wäre ich ein Zimmermann, würde ich dir ein Fenster zu meiner Seele zimmern.Wenn du hineinschauen würdest, sähest du dich selbst in der Scheibe gespiegelt.Und dann wüsstest du, dass meine Seele einSpiegelbild von deiner ist.

How do you not fall in love with him?”The tears begin flowing just as quickly as they were ceasing. I grab yet another tissue. “I don’t not fall in love with him. I don’t not fall...

That’s not a good idea.

I don’t care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into...