With adolescent Nietzscheanism, she already planned to escape on the world’s reversals from the sense of suffocation that seemed to her to be eclipsing her family, her sisters, and mother. She, she told herself, would...

Creativity is the catalyst to the future.

Before she closed the door, she hit me with this one: “I feel like it’s November first,” she said, “and I’m that discarded jack-o’-lantern whose heart and guts are splattered all over the boulevard of...

It’s a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

It was heartfelt, it was heartbreaking. It was extreme joy, it was bone-crushing grief. It was fiery hot, it was icy-cold. It was true love sprouting… it was true love dying.It’s like we were both...

She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?

Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer…It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.

How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks,...

If the one who gave me life wants the real me to die… then all I can do is die.

Jack, I think I’m having a mid-life crisis. Oh Mom, you’re way too old to be having a mid-life crisis.

When I feel myself slipping to the darkness of my past, I’ll close my eyes and remember this. Remember Jackson.

And I kind of like the Teen Rebels; they seem to be better than the Bullying Trio. Still, watch your backs, rebels!

I’m not the damsel in distress. I’m the villain. It’s only a matter of time before he realizes this.

I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, “This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.

I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

One honorable young man can make all the difference…