Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?Collection: Inspirational
The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.Collection: Needs
The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.Collection: Numb
Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.Collection: Stuff Happens
You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.Collection: Believe
Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?Collection: Thinking
I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.Collection: Book
And what if---what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?Collection: Love You
I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.Collection: Fall
I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.Collection: Moving
I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.Collection: Tired
I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.Collection: Fall
The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beatingCollection: Heart
Imagine a guy. He’s a little taller than you, with perfect skin, skin that just screams “touch me!” and dark hair and gorgeous blue eyes and he looks so sweet and he is sweet. And then have him blush a little.Collection: Sweet
Things... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is.Collection: Way
love is...you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.Collection: Hate
I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.Collection: Dream
I told you we were meant to be," he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now-- Well, now I kiss him.Collection: Kissing
And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.Collection: Hurt
Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you.Collection: Mother
You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo--"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.Collection: Love You
I love the me I am with him. I’m the girl who has Dave. I’m Lauren, Dave’s girlfriend. I’m someone better than Lauren Smith, who no one noticed till Dave came along. The thing is, that girl isn’t me and I know it. But when I’m with him, I feel like I could be her. That if something in me was just–I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.Collection: Girl
But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.Collection: Couple
Okay, I guess you can come in." "Um, Hannah, you have to, you know, open the front door so I can actually come in." "I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?" "My ladder's at home. Also, you call throwing rocks at your window clichéd?Collection: Home
My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.Collection: Mother
He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that’s a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.Collection: Hurt
The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.Collection: Heart
I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.Collection: Thinking
I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.Collection: Thinking
Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything.Collection: World
I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.Collection: Should Have
I think love is huge, overwhelming. I think it's terrible and beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.Collection: Wish
Do you really think he was flirting with me?" "Let's see. He gave you candy you hate - I saw your face - and a CD of songs..." He looks at the CD. "All of these are, like, twenty years old at least. Figures. Oh, and he groped your face. Sounds like true love to me.Collection: Song
You know who you are you just have to believe it.Collection: Believe
How come you like Josh so much anyway? All he does is sit around drinking overpriced coffee and bitching about how awful things are" "He cares about the world." "If he cared about the world, he'd donate the ten thousand dollars he must spend on coffee every year to charity. That would be doing something.Collection: Drinking
What had been became what was and a story only works when you know the ending. When the people in it don’t seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her. When you don’t already know the story is a lie.Collection: Girl
I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind.Collection: Kissing
You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never canCollection: Want
I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.Collection: Bread
Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.Collection: Life Lesson
All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.Collection: Beautiful
And you… do you know what you are?” “Stupid?” “Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red.Collection: Beautiful
I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it.Collection: Thinking
The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.Collection: Wish
Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.Collection: Four
I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her. - RyanCollection: Want
Kate, don't be like that. You know I only did so well because I yearn-see, SAT word- to follow you to college and steal your heart." "Uh-huh. Too bad for you I don't plan on attending clown college." He grinned. "Only you would ignore the incredibly sweet thing I just said." "Only you would describe one of your asinine comments as incredibly sweet.Collection: Sweet
School is just like having a job. You have to show up, you have to do your work, and you have to be around tons of idiots or mean people. Now that I think about it, it's worse than having a job. At least there you get paid.Collection: Jobs
Vitamins ruined my life. Not that there was much left to ruin, but still. I know that blaming vitamins for my horrible life sounds strange. After all, vitamins are supposed to keep people healthy. Also, they're inanimate objects. But thanks to them I was stuck in the Jackson Center Mall watching my father run around in a bee costume.Collection: Running