Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live..

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional..

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide ….

Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they a….

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them..

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbo….

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expec….

The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable t….

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs..

You should always be careful of what you say in parting..

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews….

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells..

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven..

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone..

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done..

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just….

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest..

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen..

I have Tourettes syndrome..

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be..

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?.