I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.

Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful.

One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.

I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.

You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

You’re dangerous,” he says. “Why?” “Because you make me believe in the impossible

being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.

The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled

In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row That mark our place and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.

So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.