Love makes life a little brighter

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.