For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

Things hurt and then don't hurt and hurt again.

Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.

Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

The rain sounded like it was washing the whole world away.

Her family was counting on her—to be responsible, to get good grades, to follow the rules, to be the good example. And more important, she expected those things of herself.

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

You say potato; I say potahto..." I say integrity; you say deceit.

I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.