It’s not my fault I can’t be like you, okay? I don’t get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That’s just not how I work. I don’t...

No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama.”-Inside Out and Back Again

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

He was drop-dead gorgeous and I, well I was just … dead.” (Tera Hightower, Dead Chick Walking)

I refused to believe that someone who had a voice that angelic could be bad. I knew it was illogical to think that way, but I had to believe in something good.

When you touch a man’s body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man’s heart he will remember it forever.

He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his...

Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for...

There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.

His room was dark until he switched on his desk lamp. I sat on the floor next to his bed and watched him counting clothes and considering shoes. He seemed so boyish right then—like he...

Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.

Pah! You don’t know us as well as you think.”This was a disturbing prospect.

Without a torch, I stumbled along the paths. The night was dismal. A partial moon hovered bitter and white on the horizon. It was the perfect night for murder.

The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin’ in your house, I’d kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder.

Angelica rolled the wedding band between her finger and thumb. “It’s terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want.

But do not take this responsibility lightly, my boy. The Gauntlet casts an ominous shadow.

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can’t ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.

We can’t change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that...

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

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...

My brother died because someone was jealous.

I used to think that’s what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

He hugged me, and I let him press me against his godlike body. What? A girl should have some fun sometimes.

That was when I realised a sad but incontrovertible truth: I was a geek, and there was no getting around it. I could dress in Kate’s clothes, but it didn’t make me Kate.

Nothin’.

I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn’t realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS...

There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we’d spend the rest our days look for the other.

Hurry up, he’ll be coming back pretty soon!”Lynda spelled with a “y” Corgill, who was two years behind Dara, Mackenzie, and Jennifer, and had just completed her sophomore year, squeezed the hot glue gun into...

should know that freedom is more important than being safe.

There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong

I look away, but we’ve caught each other. And I know this wasn’t just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.

Go to the Winter Dance with me.

There is no law stronger than that ofmagic. – Kian

I miss you,” he said, and his voice broke.

I’m going to turn my life around. Make a complete three sixty.””Don’t you mean one eighty?” he corrected. “If you do that, you’ll end up right back where you started.””Maybe. But at least I’ll have...

You see, there is a major downfall to living in a tourist town. You guessed it, the constant turnover of new people. You cannot really connect with anyone because no one is ever here for...

I hate you, too.

It’s said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.

The embrace was long and tight, but more like a complex language then a simple prolonged act. She said nothing at all, but damn she said everything. And I finally got it.

Eventually, that feeling fades, but there is always the memory of those days. When you’re young, everything is butterflies. What I mean is—it’s all new. I guess he was telling you to still believe, to...

Curiosity was getting the better of me.

I’m too old to be ignorant as I am.” –Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world’s brutality.

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

MANIFEST.” The idea being if you thought and dreamed about the way you wanted your life to be — if you just envisioned it long enough, it would come into being.But as hard as I...

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

I was too proud to show him how hurt I was.

For a moment, I’m captivated. He’s seducing me with his eyes. A nervous flutter swims through my stomach. I can feel my heartbeat in my throat. Pounding. Constricting. I swallow hard.