I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make us stronger.

Just let it out.

There’s a word for an author who doesn’t give up… published.

It was the first time I discovered that some girls actually sneak out of the house during slumber parties and meet up with boys. I would’ve never known if I hadn’t gone to the bathroom...

I’m here. Start at the beginning.

Would I ever find the perfect note to fill the music sheet that I had?

It always will be.

He’s hurting and it’s not just the Quinn thing. It’s being away from you and wondering if you’re hurting, too. Or if you’re having too much fun to hurt. What he really needed was to...

Were you not aware high school dances suck? That they always have sucked and they will continue sucking as long as the world turns?

I can see the paper now; it would read something like this; Kevin Smith was a wonderful boy so smart and good looking but a little clumsy. Had he simply tied up his shoes he...

Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do....

The look in his eyes reminded me of myself. We were both alone in a new environment, trapped by our circumstances, and we both needed to grow up much faster than planned. Who knew that...

When I’m naked, I can see my heart beating.

All of the emotions that hit people at times like these, all of them, were coursing through us both like a secret we couldn’t tell. Because if we said everything we were thinking and feeling...

To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished.

Every night when I watch you sleep, I breathe you in. Every time I make you smile, my heart beats a tad bit faster. You are the blood flowing through my veins. If I had...

I’m saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. I’m asking if you’ll stick this out beside me. I’m willing to lose my badge and...

We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or...

I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him.

Prove to me that you deserved it.

Right now, you and me? This feels like fate, if fate can be felt.

And we want to understand them better.

Just to be clear, if I, like, leaned over and whispered your name in your ear, still nothing?

It’s hillbilly urine; we had better get home before they come to eat us.” Kevin said pointing towards home proving if there was ever any doubt that he had no acting ability at all. (The...

…their voices are quieter than the other groups around them, but their body language speaks volumes.

I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight.

With a damp palm, I turned the knob and cracked open the door. She was asleep in her freshly made bed. I can’t explain how relieved I felt for this simple mercy. She was here...

He comes in through people. People who love us anyway. They jump right into the chaos with us and try to help us make sense of it. That’s what mercy is…it’s choosing to help, or...

The ragged curtains were reaching out across the room and the foot of the bed was soaked with rain. She got up and closed the window to protect her from the storm outside. However, there...

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.

Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us.

No one will say it to my face, but it’s so obvious they think I actually murdered Gavin. As if I would actually want to hurt the guy I was in love with. Still, I...

Sure looks like that’s working out well for you,” I say, piercing him with a scornful look.

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.

Okay, news flash. Jealousy is not something I enjoy. I hadn’t felt it much before. But I’d also never been in love. And I’d never been 3,300 miles away from the girl I loved while...

In the woods lay a bleeding angel in all her glory. Her arms posed gracefully above her head and her hair soaked in the mud, the blood and feces in which she lay. Dying, fading...

It was like I couldn’t think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million.” “How many words are in the English language?””Not the point.

It’s too dangerous…I would never be able to forgive myself if something happened to him. I wouldn’t be able to bare it. Forgiveness would be out of the question; beyond my ability. I would never...

It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this...

I found I could only glance at him for tiny moments and then I had to look away. He was perfect enough to hurt my feelings for a long time, and I wanted to let...

They say love is blind…but it isn’t. Love is perfect sight. Love is the ability to see a person, I mean really see him-his strengths, his weaknesses, his flaws, all his past triumphs and mistakes-and...

How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking up.” Something in...

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.

Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.

Leave my dad out of this.

Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don’t even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don’t even have...

A blank canvas…has unlimited possibilities.

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?