A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.

Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in My Books?" If he didn't, then you could just be making all of this up. Does anyone really think this guy sat down and stuck all kinds of hidden meanings into his story? It's just a story.... But I think you are making all of this symbolism stuff up. I don't believe any of it.

I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life.

I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.

Kids are mostly very resilient.

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.