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It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him

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