You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee." Cup coffee?" Taste it." What? Are you the coffee police or something?

You don't need a geochache for this one." "You don't, huh?" "Nope.. here I am. Here I am.