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

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...

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don’t have to hear the stupid things people say, but I’d look like a dork in them.” -Corinna

I don’t mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.

He reflects on all the times he thought she wasn’t sure of her feelings for him, when perhaps she might’ve been taking a leisurely stroll across Elijah’s heart, leaving footprints behind that he’d never seen.

It had become their creation, and they all would know it.

But when you don’t follow them up with any action, they’re completely pointless. They’re just sounds and syllables. But they mean absolutely nothing.

My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun to notice her less and less often, like her colors were...

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...

Do You Believe?

I wanted to remind you that you do not allow me to deliver boats, as I have been known to crash them.

All I knew was that in a way I couldn’t explain, his hug matched his stare.

Why am I not good enough?At least he loves Darren and Yaichain some wayeven if it’s horrible, he shows them attentionand I am furnitureI get nothing nothingnothingno thing

That’s not all I’ve got.

Perception in the eye of vengeance becomes blurred. Ren was in need of a slap on the face, but I knew what was coming and that it would do the job properly.

Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies…” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile.

Character isn’t something you talk about; it’s something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.

Believe in yourself, Follow your dreams, and all things are possible!

A true leader is not meant to be greeted with unanimous praise by his people. A leader is meant to be questioned, to be suspect, to be hated. If he is not, then one can...

Oh Trysten, I don’t care who you are, or what you can become, but I love you for loving me.

But I understood, now, that we don’t live only for ourselves. We’re connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion. I learned that even when we’re going through...

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

There comes a time in a girl’s life where she finds her heart broken, what matters is not the boy who broke it but the boy who stitches it back together

We all straddle the abyss, Penny. If you never look down, how will you ever know who you are or what you will become? Your dad could never be ashamed of you, because falling in...

Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that’s what everyone said.

I’ll always love you, no matter what happens, okay?

Christian-like”, Messianic? We should cherem (ban) them from every aspect of Jewish life. And we must strip them of every Jewish privilege!

Sometimes the rues don’t work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

Hey, when you love a woman, and when she’s this crazy in love with you, you’ve got to do whatever she says, man.

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.

…and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman.” ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes

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...

I’ve decided she’s worthy of something more special, something worthy of my powers.

He’s not yet realized that by giving away nothing but barefaced lies he’s come to wither and rot inside. But she’s still looking for him into the void of his cold heart.

I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.

I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.

Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what’s wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes...

When I make love to you,’ he said in a low whisper right by my ear, ‘I want to be able to give you one hundred percent of my attention. Right now, with the Unit...

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

Abuse doesn’t define you.

She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

I was almost awestruck when I realized that like this meant without a condom. Jack’s vulnerability shone through him in that exact moment like a lighthouse beacon in a raging storm. Somewhere along the way,...

Dear God, Meg, you’re glowing. Sit and tell me about this boy. He let you borrow his jacket? That’s so adorable.” Instead, I came off the high of that day by writing a letter to...

I’ll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.

You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed!