I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.