Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak..

If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies..

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die..

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits..

Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring cra….

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools..

Be a little kinder than you have to..

8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fu….

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you..

"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person….

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it..

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be..

We should not accept an evil we can change..

I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out….

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all..

Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that the….

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel..

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout..

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then o….

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?.