[Josie said] I just ... I don't like the way you treat kids who aren't like us, all right? Just because you don't want to hang out with losers doesn't mean you have to torture them, does it? Yeah, it...
[...] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation...
Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
You might tell yourself that candor is the foundation of a relationship, but even that would be untrue. You are far more likely to lie to yourself, or your loved one, if you think it will keep the pai...
You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.
You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.
You know how I see it? There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing--light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark i...
You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.
You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.
You have everything, she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. Sh...
You don’t know what you don’t know,
You could stop expecting the most awful thing to happen, because it already had.
You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be be dragged down for the count, too.
You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore.
You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recogn...
You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am...
You can boil your life down to a single suitcase, if you desperately have to. Ask yourself what you really need, and it won't be what you imagine - you will easily toss aside unfinished work, and bill...
You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you.Was there a next time?Well, you t...