You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?

Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

Safe is just another word for scared.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.