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.

Without saying anything, Dara gathered her pillow and one of the soft comforters from her bed and carried it into Carolina’s room. Mackenzie and Jennifer followed her. They would sleep in her room that night,...

Heralds don’t sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful...

At times it’s like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.

You okay?

About the library,” he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page.”Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?” I inquired.He wrote and whispered the words...

Oh for craps sake. You’re not dying again, are you? It’s seriously inconvenient when you do that.” -Aphrodite

Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within.

Something else you should really know about me. When I get nervous, my fingers shake. I’ve noticed this a lot recently. When mother and father argue and their voices are falling around the small family...

Why?”Because I know it’ll annoy the shit out of you.

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should’ve just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

Semakin banyak mimpi, berarti semakin banyak berharap. Itu berarti harus siap jika sewaktu-waktu jatuh dan merasakan sakit yang bertubi-tubi.

Be proud of who you are.

Christy isn’t a case, he’s a person.

She forks up a little nibble and wedges it in her mouth. “Yum,” she croaks.Mrs. Wong looks pleased. “It’s made with tofu.”I can’t resist. “Free-range tofu?”My mother looks over at me sharply. Mrs. Wong takes...

The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor...

Ultimately, the universe doesn’t care about us. Time doesn’t care about us. That’s why we have to care about each other.

I’d stumbled upon the inner sanctuary of a woman who loved the world. Loved the faces of people she saw. Loved the way a hand looked when it was relaxed. Loved the way a woman...

Promise?” Well, that genie’s out of the bottle and there’s no stuffing her back in.

Calling a book “Young Adult” is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But...

Why, hell no, I cannot.” I didn’t remember anything like this happening in Pride and Prejudice.

Flanked by his personal guardsmen, Emperor Gevalen walked toward me, never letting go of me with his eyes. It was thrilling and terrifying all at once.

No. The part about you fallin’ for me.

The Professor doesn’t have a problem being called Dick? If my name was Richard, I’d go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I’d even settle for being called Chard.

For several moments, Mary couldn’t hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.

See? Instead of thinking of a way to help my people, all I can think of is the smell of your hair and that small dimple on your cheek when you smile.” (Victor)

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!” He became animated at this point, “No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to...

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

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 like her just fine, but you should watch yourself around her. Tennyson is given to obsession, and her obsessions tend to run toward trouble. It’s kind of a Wyoming thing to push the whole...

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

You don’t think you’re a vampire, Sam. That kind of thing you know.

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn’t exist.

I suspect I am a hooligan.

Imagine,” she said, after registering, “a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it’ll be sexy.” “You’ll be so easy,” Rashmi said. “Would you like-ah to order-ah the spa-ghe-tti?...

I was a wildflower that would continue to grow in the most unexpected weather.

Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting,and the notes. The cadence had at last developed into a concerto for violin, the instrument of gypsies, with a...

With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the...

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it’s during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

He’d promised her forever, but now that there was another option, would he want to take it? He’d said not, but Bessina had butterflies taking up residence in her stomach at the thought. She had...

Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.

Oh, hey, did you want to keep these for when your invisible boyfriend returns from his fake vacation?

Love is blind; people aren’t.Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14

No, Kramisha, he’s not black. He’s a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

There’s no way I would forget that.