Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The mea….

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning..

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he….

What, are you totally psycho?" I shouted. "Maybe I am!" he screamed back at me. "Maybe that's just what I am. Maybe I'm that quiet guy who suddenly g….

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things..

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal….

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up..

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things..

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed..

That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong..

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than an….

Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile..

Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a ho….

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear..

...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and ligh….

Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug..

Small victories are bet­ter than none..

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown terri….

No true hero ever believes that they are one..

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is noth….

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter….