A colorful body with fabrics, tattoos and jewelry is attractive, but a colorful heart with love, truth and faith is beautiful.

Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society

The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

You smoke? Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?

With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature, Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. I didn’t create them, humans created the Pollution. Chery...

Why do we live in Spooksville? It’s not just because our families live here. It’s because this is a place of adventure. The unknown surrounds us every time we leave our homes. I know what I’m doing is...

Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it tu...

The world was waiting--wide open and hers for the taking.

She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with walls and become a house she can live in. Because if t...

Please forgive me for fighting against us, Gavin. Please forgive me for not fighting for us when I knew we were supposed to be together. Forgive me for being the weak mess I am. But more than anything...

Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her...long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as...

Mindset and attitude are so tightly intertwined they almost mean the same thing!

La bellezza è raramente dolce o consolatoria. Quasi l'opposto. La vera bellezza è sempre un po' inquietante.

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This—this—this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.