“Everyone knows that the teenage years are a time ofprofound emotion. The moody, exuberant, passionate,lethargic teen is a figure that has a special place in the hall of fame of clichsand for good r...”

“Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.”

“We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a ...”

“It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.”

“My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.”

“The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”

“I am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

“The list below begins to illustrate how different personalities can be assigned to different vocal qualities . . .”

“Start by loving, instead of needing.”

“Loving money is more of a problem for those who do not have it.”