It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

The man who dreams in sleeping, leads to sleeping when thinking

I was in a strip club trying to help a ghost get laid which was challenging, but not impossible.

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.

The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.