You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.

Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.

My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life, especially with so few years to enjoy what little there is.

We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.