My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.