What a lovely balance. Lend shows whatever he wants the world to see and you see through whatever the world wants to show you.

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.

I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.

Streams of melting snow.

Why does everyone keep asking me that?" Seriously, did I look like some sort of pyscho assassin? Maybe it was the pink sneakers. Or the heart earrings?

She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced with cupcakes. Mmm. Cupcakes.

Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of a stubborn, headstrong teenager.” “And you love me for it.” “I do.

What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?

Time held me green and dyingThough I sang in my chains like the sea.

Christians have the spiritual mandate to establish the Kingdom of God in their own lives and in their society.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and I must be alone or with someone who cares for them as I do.

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.