Why let someone you don't respect influence the way you think of yourself? If you don't respect them and what they do, you shouldn't let them influence what you think of yourself.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

For in today’s generation of teenagers finding acceptance is hard, especially for those who dare to be different-then it’s impossible.

I love to glow, and it's important for me to have a good highlighter to brighten up.

His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons.