The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older

Po flickered. "Thank you?" it repeated. "What is that?" Liesl thought. "It means, You were wonderful," she said. "It means, I couldn't have done it without you.

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.

I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.