So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.