What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

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.

The problem with all of you is you think in isolation instead of realizing we are one community, when one of us falls, we all fall.

You cannot discover your soul under the shackles of slavery.

To be successful is to be a carrier of kingdom in every life pursuit

He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damnedsense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.

You have such a huge career ... behind you.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.