Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?