I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.
I close my eyes, rub my thumb against the bridge of my nose to ward off the headache. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.
I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.
I believe in Hell...but it's here on earth. He shakes his head. Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.
I am angry at myself, at the world, but because it is easier, I lash out at him.
How does someone go from thinking that if he cannot rescue, he must destroy? And do you blame him, or do you blame the folks who should have told him otherwise?
Heroes don't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they don't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving....
He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something thatdoesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.
He could stand pain, himself. He just couldn't stand hers.
God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.
Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.
Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?
Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?
Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.
Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.
Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.
But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.
Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do
Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.