“The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was s...”

“This is not something anyone can teach you. Heartbreak you must learn on your own.”

“So self-assured were they all by nature that it never occurred to me to doubt that their perfection was predetermined by forces I did not understand. They were all royalty. They were all gods. They...”

“Im sorry, I whispered. I didnt know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.”

“Before that night, I didn't grasp that the shadows that sometimes crossed her face weren't momentary clouds passing in front of the sun. Her deep silences were more than daydreams. And her habit of...”

“Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.”

“Life is good! It is only our thoughts, choices and actions towards the situations we meet in life each moment of time that makes life look bad! The same bad situation in life that makes one person ...”

“Plant your tiny seeds and keep watering them every day. Soon, theyll grow.”

“To become a better you, concentrate on the work at hand at the moment. Do it and do it well.”

“Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I'm feeling different-light and good and maybe even holy.”

“Don't make me sit through reality.”

“My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church bells, reassuring me that everything would return to normal.”

“Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.”

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”

“I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.”