Sometimes it's the things that are all around us that are hardest to see, especially love.

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

Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.

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.

It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.

We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.

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.