As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.

You're probably the most boring teenager in the world.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though she were gliding. He'd seen beautiful women before, though, women who caught his eye, but to his mind, they usually lacked the traits he found most desirable. Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself.

I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

How're the Broncos doing?" "Like a bunch of carrots." "Is that bad?" "Can carrots play baseball?" "I guess not." "Then you have your answer.