Forte is French… for blanket fort.

The future gets no say in who we are.

Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

He’s not wearing…” Charlotte began.“I know. He doesn’t, ” Lydia answered.

Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

You are bigger than your circumstances.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God.

Who designed this world we live in?

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.