I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.

It's crap that you're letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.

It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love

I look at my reflection in the mirror and I see a girl who desperately wants to forgive a boy, but not without a hell of a lot of grovelling first.

Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my whole family.

Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.