No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.