willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Positive thoughts revive the spirit, restore the soul and make the body healthy.

There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.

DON'T FOR GET WHERE YOU CAME FROM SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING.

Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest.

It can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. I always feel that I'm safe at home, near my family.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.

Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.