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

There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

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

You're incredibly brave. And you're going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you're beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.

I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

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.