Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.
Well, I’ve been corresponding with a complete stranger in a notebook, telling him my innermost feelings and thoughts and then blindly going to mystery places where he dares me to go….
We met in the park to wrest the afternoon into the shape of a stroll.
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
The world was too full of wastrels and waifs, sycophants and spies—all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect.
The whole thing was silly, I said. Please tell her there’s no need to apologize. We set ourselves up for this. I was never going to be the guy in her head. And she was never going to be the girl in mi...
The way you’re singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don’t know But I’m noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the...
The way you’re singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don’t know But I’m noticing Fuck
The reward is in the risk. You can’t stay hidden inside Grandpa’s overprotective cloak forever. You’ve seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red noteb...
The pill’s bittersweet chaser is not that they can’t love you back the same way. It’s that they won’t. They won’t open their minds to the possibility. They won’t expand their expectations of romantic...
The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.
The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.
The handwriting was a girl’s. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.
The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words I love you ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game
The Velmas of the world do not intern at CNN, hope to be accepted at Columbia J-School after graduating NYU with honors, and go on to win Pulitzer Prizes by getting bogged down in relationship drama....
That's because you're interpreting it the wrong way. I didn't mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I mean that the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever chan...
Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.
Somebody how wouldn't judge another for prepositions they dangle, or their run-on sentences, and who in turn wouldn't be judged for the snobbery of their language etymology inclinations.
Sofia smiled at me. You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn’t just the women. It’s the great male fantasy—all it takes is one dance t...
So what do you have to confess now?I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth. I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this.What is 'this'?Being open. Being hurt. Li...