Susane Colasanti
If you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.Collection: Magic
No one can save me except myself.Collection: Save Me
Now that I know where this life is going, it's time to decide how I'll get there.Collection: Life Is
But if your boyfriend, out of nowhere and with no advance warning whatsoever, dumps you for no apparent reason, is it really about you? Or is it all him?Collection: Your Boyfriend
The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.Collection: Parent
FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn’t always prevail over evil.Collection: Mean
School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.Collection: School
No two people can see the world in the same way. No matter what you’re looking at, no one is seeing it the same way you are.Collection: Two
Love is never guaranteed. Love is a risk we take because we hope it will make us happy.Collection: Love Is
All I can do is hope.Collection: Can Do
Derek’s like, “So . . . what do you want to do first?” “I don’t know.” “Feel like ice cream?” “It’s, like, three degrees out.” “That’s why getting ice cream would be badass.Collection: Badass
A geek is like a dork. Someone who’s on the fringe, who you wouldn’t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me.” “You’re not a nerd!” “It’s okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me I’m weird.” I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. “I mean, why be normal?Collection: Smart
I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.Collection: Mean
This stuff doesn't matter. What matters is what you do with it." Sara snaps the highlighter cap on. "I try not to think about how boring it is (History). I just keep reminding myself about how I want my life to be and what I have to do to get there. Then it's simple.Collection: Simple
Apparently, it used to be extremely common for families to have two parents. They stayed together because that’s what all the other parents did. Now there are so many options, so many different ways to be a family. So many ways to rip a family apart.Collection: Rip
We’re products of our choices.Collection: Choices
Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.Collection: Ruins
I want to tell Tobet about when i was standing in this exact same place last summer, wishing for him to be real. But it's hard to remember life before Tobey. He makes eveything seem possible. Like whatever you feel is true, really true in your heart, you can make happen. And you just know, when it happens, its for real. And there are a million possibilities. Like the possibility of going separate ways. Together.Collection: Summer
You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.Collection: Overcoming
This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.Collection: Healing
Maybe it's just hart to see what's right in front of you while you're frantically searching for it.Collection: Hart
We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.Collection: Love
When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don’t want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.Collection: Teacher
When your heart is shattered into a million pieces, all you can do is try to keep holding on. You breathe. You try to fall asleep. You try to not think about him.Collection: Fall
If I’d stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don’t think I would have survived high school.Collection: Believe
I wish emotional bruises healed like physical ones.Collection: Emotional
You'll get through this. And I know it's impossible to believe right now, but it gets better. Trust me.Collection: Sad
SEEING BELIEVING what’s in front of you is not necessarily the entire storyCollection: Believe
The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It’s not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today." - Publisher WeeklyCollection: Bullying
For one day there will be nothing left, yet we will have something. -me- I tried to wait for my life to begin. Something has to happen. Like an amazing boy. I know he's out there. I just have to find him.Collection: Boys
It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating. - SaraCollection: Incredibles
But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.Collection: Depressing
Too bad Einstein’s dead. I’m sure he would have appreciated my latest discovery within the space-time continuum.The closer you are to experiencing a monumental event, the longer time stretches out. It makes you feel aloneCollection: Discovery
Who remembers everything about somebody?Collection: Remembers Everything
When someone rips your heart out, there's nothing you can do to change how you feel about them. You just have to keep feeling that way until it goes away. Until it never does.Collection: Rip
I still love him. And here's the worst part. I want him back. - ReeCollection: Want
Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength.Collection: Coffee
Happiness is not limited. There’s enough for everyone.Collection: Enough
But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.Collection: Want
TOP FIVE WAYS PEOPLE CAN SURPRISE YOU 5. Just when you think they’ve given up on you, they prove that they never will. 4. They find a way to speak up after staying silent for so long. 3. They defend you when you least expect it. 2. By showing you how life can get better now. 1. By helping you find a place to belong.Collection: Thinking
Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.Collection: Girl
What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul SistersCollection: Two
But the absolute worst was when people asked if I was okay. Because then I had to admit that it was real, it happened, and we weren't together anymore.Collection: Real
Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.Collection: Mean
I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.Collection: Life
I can’t tell how much of our connection is because of the things we still have in common or the one thing that bonds us for life. But no matter what happens, I know I can totally count on Erin for anything. And she knows I’d do anything for her.Collection: Connections
Last words of wisdom.If your parents are screewed up, don't turn into them. Use them as an example of what not to be- be yourself instead. you can overcome your fears, you can change, you can make your life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybr not tomorrow but soon. So hang in.Collection: Being Yourself
Maybe there is no one perfect person and anyone you end up with will eventually make you think there’s someone better out there.Collection: Thinking
I'm sorry.' Congratulations.' Can you tell me why you're so upset?' The thing is, Tobey should get this. I mean, he's gotten everything else about me. And I don't want to explain it all. So much of it has to do with jealousy, and I know it's stupid to be mad at him because he had a life before me. But I am anyway.Collection: Sorry