Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.

Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.

Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

Love isn't meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

Ben let a slow smile play over his face. He loved this part. It always felt like revealing to a disbeliever that he had magical powers or something.

You know that old saying about home being where the heart is? I don’t think that refers to your own. It’s the hearts of other people, the ones you love, that makes a home.

I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one.

Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.

There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.

Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.

The sun does not rise abruptly, but perseveres until it rules the sky.

Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels, or very boring people.

When trapped in a constant state of negative over-stimulation, anxiety becomes the norm in our lives. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, 'cause it's a nice balance to the weightlifting.

I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. I am my own entourage!

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.