“If you asked me whether I was the type of person who liked trying new things or preferred sticking with what was familiar, I would have told you I was the second girl. The if it-aint-broke-dont-fix...”

“Sobs force their way out of my throat. I feel like Im trapped in a disaster movie where everything is shriveling into darkness and ash. Sunflowers are being uprooted. Puppies are being trampled. Wh...”

“When you share feelings with someone, or secrets, it adds a layer of complexity to even the simplest things.”

“Not sure how you can get them to him without looking like a crazy stalker chick," Micah says."You think I'm a crazy stalker chick?""You're using an ancient war manual to try to win back your boyfri...”

“Nothing stings quite like an unanswered text message.”

“We wind our way up the spiral staircase and then down the long hallway that leads to his room. I feel almost like Im watching the scene unfold from outside my body. My fingers are interlocked with ...”

“Ive been fighting to be who I am all my life. Whats the point of being who I am, if I cant have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.”

“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and ...”

“Here must thou be, O man,Strength to thyself no helper hast thou here Here keepest thou thy individual state:No other can divide with thee this work,No secondary hand can interveneTo fashion this ...”

“A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply adopting the values of another.”