Discovering the World

It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

You’re the one who is weak.You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

Every had a flying burrito hit you? Well it’s a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.

To dream is to starve doubt, and feed hope.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

I am not plain, or average or -god forbid- vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I was worn out, broken: he had taken almost everything. But he’d been all I had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved ones, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.

Flawed, we’re truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

I nodded looking at Rachel with respect. ‘You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hair brush.’

It does not do well to dwell on dreams, and forget to live.

Let us find the dam snack bar,’ Zoe said. ‘We should eat while we can.’ Grover cracked a smile. 'The dam snack bar?’ Zoe blinked. 'Yes. What is funny?’ 'Nothing.’ Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. 'I could use some dam french fries.’ Even Thalia smiled at that. 'And I need to use the dam restroom.’ I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in while Zoe just looked at me. 'I do not understand.’ 'I want to use the dam water fountain,’ Grover said. 'And…’ Thalia tried to catch her breath. 'I want to buy a dam t-shirt.

I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we are, far more than our abilities.

Remember, we’re madly in love, so it’s all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

Don’t think or judge, just listen.