I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

He didn’t ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.

Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self.

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

What does the vice president do?

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.