"So much good, so much evil. Just add water."

"There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more."

"Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask."

"Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?"

"I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life."

"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."

"Even death has a heart."

"Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are."

"She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them.I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything."

"If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter."

"She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on..."

"A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children"

"He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry."

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."

"So much good, so much evil. Just add water."

"There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more."

"Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask."

"Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?"

"I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life."

"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."

"Even death has a heart."

"Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are."