Claudia Gray

He deserves better than this. But "deserves" doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.

Your soul is bigger than your programming.

I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.

It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they__e not like other girls _ especially when it__ 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It__ taking a form of contempt for women _ even a hatred for women _ and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I__ special, I__ not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.The real meaning of ____ not like the other girls_ is, I think, ____ not the media__ image of what girls should be._ Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we__e all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It__ a lie _ a flat-out lie _ and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.

Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.

I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you.""Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.

The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities, I have mine.

I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

Vic knelt by Lucas's side. 'You look like crap, by the way.''Thanks for breaking it to me gently.' Lucas took a deep breath, then groaned.

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

He takes my hand and says, 'Let's make a world.

I love the romance in Kimberly Derting's 'The Body Finder.' 'Cold Kiss' by Amy Garvey is unbelievably touching - and about so much more than just romantic love.

I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

I've loved Leia and Han since I was seven years old. Getting a chance to tell some of their adventures? Mind-blowing on every level. I wish I could go back in time and high-five my baby self.