His strength kept me moving forward, and it was also tearing me apart.

I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.

Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible.

He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me.

It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.

He leaned toward me and delicately grazed my lips with his. The tease left me breathless, burning for more. “I keep having to remind myself that I can do that, ” he smirked.

These past two days, I’ve seen a fire in your eyes that I never have before. Granted, it’s mostly anger and frustration, but it’s still emotion.

I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews.

Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn’t do it, ” Evan declared, sliding under the covers next to me.

You are not showing her my baby pictures!” He sounded horrified, which made me laugh. “Come on, Evan, ” I teased with a laughing smile, “you were adorable.

Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?” she exclaimed. “Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?

He had a prince's looks but a pirate's eyes.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.