I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very intere….

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that ….

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well..

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own..

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it..

I cannot live without reading..

How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not j….

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable..

Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. ….

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you..

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope..

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing..

And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay..

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past..

The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case ….

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss….

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?.

If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way the….

Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the s….

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists..

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There ar….