“Suddenly Adam (Upton) hated death just as much as he hated life, and now he had absolutely no idea how to unsolve that equation.-- From my upcoming novel "Streaks of Blue: How the Angels of Newtown Inspired One Girl to Save Her School.”

“How do you tell your mom you're following your dream when it's the one that warned you to befriend a psychotic boy before he shoots up your school?-- from the upcoming "Streaks of Blue”

“I hate hiding how much the stupid things he did hurt me, but I hated the idea of him finding out even more.”

“I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from myself, from absolute despair. Maybe he does know and that's exactly what he was doing. He was like an angel who came into my life with his bus of books at exactly the right time, who whisked me away from a terrible place to a faraway land.”

“He's still blabbing about how much he hates Mark Watts and now sucky he is at basketball (Who cares?),which I interpret as Blah,blah,kill me now, blah, blah, my life is over, blah, blah, blah.”

“In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.”