When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

"I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be.” Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

The thing is some girls think they can actually change guys

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

there is this one photograph... that is just beautiful. it would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but i’ll try. if you listen to the song “asleep,” and you think about those pretty weather days that make you remember things, and you think about the prettiest eyes you’ve known, and you cry and the person holds you back, then i think you will see the photograph.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.