Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.

It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

Love can make up for a lot.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that nobody's life is perfect, and that those girls probably had a lot of the same problems I did.