Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

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.

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to.

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.

So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing but a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anything but doesn't hurt your eyes. It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small.