I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.

Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them.

That's the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But it's not that easy, okay? You can't just force us all to be how you liked us.

You're both living these lives you didn't choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that's supposed to mean. That's messed up.

Did you pick that out?" I asked Dimitri. Honestly, I would have expected him to bend a piece of steel with his bare hands and present her with that.

Dreams do come true for those who dare to believe in themselves.

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Let's use that empty noggin of yours as a punch bowl, so it's at least good for something!! Whadja say?! Ooh, but I love punch!!

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.