A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.
Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.
Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.
There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.
My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Not to be missed.
We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud
The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?
I'm not saying that all American men are this way, but nine out of ten are breast-fixated, wham-bam-thank-you-rna'am cretins who just don't give a damn about anyone's gratification but their own.