You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity -- self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness -- are the least attractive in a friend.

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.

And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.