The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth.

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a “make sure I have everything” glance. It was...

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn’t even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that’s never...

I guess there’s a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that’s what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

And in this moment, I realize one reason it’s so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

Well, can you tell her that?”He looked down at his feet. “I will. I will.”Guy-speak for, “I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.

Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away...

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn’t imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

I love you when you’re happy. I love you when you’re sad. I love you if you’re angry,And I love you if you’re bad. No matter how you feel, I love you all the time.Oh...

Bittersweet: it’s what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S’mores.

She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take.

You people who have survived childhood don’t remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be...

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

Life is a valuable and unique opportunityto discover who you are.But it seems as soon as you nearanswering that age-old question,something unexpected always happensto alter your course.And who it is you thought you weresuddenly changes.Then...

The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now.

I left Hairball to his manic mantric singing. I walked toward the house and stopped to rub some white pine needles on my fingers. The evergreen smelled fresh and alive. The needles were long and...

I didn’t want to get burned. I didn’t want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.

Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking.

Hush now, ‘tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.

In the end, every person’s life is a tough act to follow.

Where should I go?” -Alice. “That depends on where you want to end up.” – The Cheshire Cat.

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

It’s okay to be happy.

It’s not easy to be God.

Belonging to a place isn’t nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.

I’m not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I’m old, perhaps.

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers’ laps. (The Pinata-Maker’s Daughter)

Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackheads bled and...

It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. ‘Oh,’ Izzie said, ‘You’re at an age when a girl is simply consumed by the sublime.’ Ursula wasn’t sure what she...

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches and talk, but their conversations aren’t sprinkled with laughter anymore. Since the new,...

You’ll get fired if anyone finds out about us!””So many rules in this century,” Vane muttered.

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone’s family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.” – Zane, page 400

Is it possible that that’s all maturity is? Speaking better? Is it possible that everybody in the world, is just a dumb, stupid kid acting like a grown-up because they can sound like one and...

When you’re finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

Wow, you are super drunk.

How stupid that all I have to dois grow two squishy lumps and suddenlyI’m man’s best friend

She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman’s dress, she thinks, a young woman’s dress....

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.

You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.

He ever offer to walk you home?””I’ve never asked,” Cath said quickly. “I’ve never asked you either.””That’s true,” Levi said.More quiet. More cold.The air stung Cath’s throat when she finally spoke again. “So maybe you...