Time Bomb

To get what you wanted in life, you must inspire trust - even if you intended to break it.

Once you were a winner, you had to stay the winner they expected you to be.

it took courage to live.

Depression isn’t like root beer. It’s not as if you either like it or you don’t.

Was he scared? Hell, yeah. But sometimes the only way to change something was to break it first.

...fighting to live is hard. It’s supposed to be. Giving up is the easy part.

Talent means nothing unless you take the time to hone it.

mending what was broken could be done quickly if you wanted it badly enough.

Life sucks, and there aren’t any words anyone can ever say that will make that better

You can’t really expect us to go out that window on a rope made of braided twine like we’re deranged superheroes.

An explosion. Something that should exist only in movies and on the news. And here he was in the middle of it.

Killing yourself is taking the easy way out. That’s what cowards do.

God bless America, where we turn everyone against each other to keep us safe.

Why did you come here today, Cas? You must have had a reason,” the truth just tumbled out. “I came here to die.

Hooray for the voice of reason.

You can make it Cas,” Frankie said from the other side. “Think snake-like thoughts, and you’ll be fine. Trust me.

If you wanted something to be different, you had to do it yourself.

She’d given him hope that maybe, just maybe, things would change if he just waited.

You know what it’s like to be different, but instead of thinking about that, you stand there while your friends hurl insults and believe everything they hear on television. You should know better, but you don’t, so do you actually think my telling you that you’re wrong would change any of that?

If a vampire wandered by, I’d make his day. No effort required.

Only normal sucked, and he didn’t think he could live like this—not anymore.

when she played something beautiful, she almost could convince herself that she was beautiful too.

No matter what she said or what she wore or how hard she tried. They had already decided she wasn’t good enough. And she was done trying to gain the approval of people who thought they could make themselves feel better by pushing her and then kicking her when she was down.

she said that she liked the attention the hijab brought, and it helped her know exactly who her friends were. The hijab signaled who she was and that she was proud of her heritage. She said if people didn’t like it, they could just get out of her way.

To get what you wanted in life, you must inspire trust—even if you intended to break it.

Another bomb was ready to go off, and the bomber was one of them.