When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don’t want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.

Do you believe in fate?" "I guess, but . . . its more about creatng the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You know?

That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.

School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.

No two people can see the world in the same way. No matter what you’re looking at, no one is seeing it the same way you are.

Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.