What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

When you only focus on your goals you never see any obstacles.

Love Is Elusive When We Never Live The Word We Speak

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

It’s like saying you’re fixed in the past, and you’re running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of something new

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.