"Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance." -Anna Quindlen, Every Last One  

"I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone."

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

"When in doubt, go for the dick joke."

-Robin Williams (1952-2014)

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson 

On The Run Tour: Beyoncé 2014

"There are two types of waiting. There’s the the waiting you do for something you know is coming, sooner or later—like waiting for the 6:28 train, or the school bus, or a party where a certain handsome boy might be. And then there’s the waiting for something you don’t know is coming. You don’t even know what it is exactly, but you’re hoping for it. You’re imagining it and living your life for it. That’s the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart." (via My Mind, it wanders)

YALL Fest

I'm so excited for this:

YALLFest 2014 Authors

Kwame Alexander- The Crossover

Jennifer Armentrout - Don’t Look Back  

Leigh Bardugo – The Grisha Trilogy

Pseudonymous Bosch – The Secret Series

Alexandra Bracken – The Darkest Minds series

Ann Brashares - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Libba Bray – Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Coe Booth - Bronxwood, Kinda Like Brothers

Kiera Cass - The Selection Trilogy

Ally Condie – Matched Trilogy

James Dashner - The Maze Runner series, The Mortality Doctrine series

John Parke Davis - Map to Everywhere

Melissa De La Cruz – Blue Bloods Series, The Ring and the Crown, Stolen, Vampires of Manhattan

Matt De La Pena - Mexican Whiteboy, The Living

Sarah Dessen - Along for the Ride, The Moon and More

Jim di Bartolo - In the Shadows

Susan Ee - Penryn & the End of Days series

Daniel Ehrenhaft - The Last Dog on Earth

Sarah Fine - Guards of the Shadowlands series

Becca Fitzpatrick - Hush, Hush series, Black Ice

Gayle Forman – If I Stay, Just One Day

Kami Garcia – The Beautiful Creatures Series, The Legion series

Adam Gidwitz – A Tale Dark and Grim Series

Ryan Graudin - The Walled City

Adele Griffin - The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone

Nikki Grimes - Bronx Masquerade, Words with Wings

Aaron Hartzler – Rapture Practice

Michelle Hodkin - Mara Dyer series

Varian Johnson - The Great Greene Heist

Mike Johnston – Frozen series

Christina Lauren - Sublime

David Levithan – Two Boys Kissing

E Lockhart - The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks, We Were Liars

Alexander London - Proxy

Marie Lu - Legend Series, The Young Elites

Sarah J Maas - Throne of Glass series

DJ MacHale - Sylo

Barnabas Miller - 7 Souls

Lauren Myracle - Twelve, Yolo, The Internet Girls series

Lauren Oliver – Delirium Series, Panic, Rooms

Danielle Paige – Dorothy Must Die series

Stephanie Perkins – Anna and the French Kiss, Isla and the Happily Ever After

Brendan Reichs -The Virals Series

Kathy Reichs - The Virals Series, The Temperance Brennan series

Morgan Rhodes - Falling Kingdoms, Rebel Spring

Veronica Roth – Divergent Series

Rainbow Rowell - Eleanor & Park, Fangirl

Carrie Ryan – The Forest of Hands and Teeth series, The Road to Everywhere

Kieran Scott - Private & Privilege, Only Everything, Complete Nothing

Jen E Smith - The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Geography of You and Me

Natalie Standiford - How to Say Goodbye in Robot, Switched at Birthday,

Margaret Stohl – The Beautiful Creatures Series, Icons series

Laini Taylor - Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

JE Thompson – The Girl From Felony Bay

Maya Van Wagenen - Popular: Vintage Wisdom for the Modern Geek

Scott Westerfeld - Uglies, Leviathan series

Rita Williams-Garcia - One Crazy Summer

Sara Zarr - Story of a Girl, Roomies, The Lucy Variations

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Editorial Track

Daniel Ehrenhaft – The Last Dog on Earth

Emily Meehan

Jocelyn Davies - A Beautiful Dark

Sarah Burnes