Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice,...
This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract te...
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without h...
She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.
Okay.
I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
I guess I had a hamartia after all.
We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.
They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love anything more interesting
Depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
You are a side effect, Van Houten continued, of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anythin...
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said
Yeah, about the test...
Observation: Standing in line is a form of oppression.
Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.