Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.
I’m Tetris, Silas. All my pieces and parts are going to fit into all of your pieces and parts.
If I live the life I’m given, I won’t be scared to die.
You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.
This thing about you that you think is your flaw – it’s the reason I’m falling in love with you.
I don’t care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.
I look at my reflection in the mirror and I see a girl who desperately wants to forgive a boy, but not without a hell of a lot of grovelling first.
If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.
It’s crap that you’re letting one bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.
It’s the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love.
Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.
I’m afraid if I listen to my heart once, I’ll never figure out how to ignore it again.
It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.
In reality, people are who they are and they’ll never really change.
God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.
Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.
When I published my first novel, Slammed, I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.
It’s not a confession if no one reads it. It’s just an unshared secret.
Every day of my life it feels as if I’m fighting my way up an escalator that only goes down. And no matter how fast or how hard I run to try to reach the top, I stay in the same place, sprinting, getting nowhere.
I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.