Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I...
Just in case the world ends tomorrow, we might as well enjoy today.
The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.
We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.
So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless.
I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.
Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.
Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.
Mom, is the world coming to an end?" Jonny asked, picking up the plate of cookies and ramming one into his mouth."No, it isn'T," Mom said, folding her lawn chair and carrying it to the front of the ho...
I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.
My existence is the only gift I have left to give, but it will have to do.
So what if I don't learn algebra?''Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.''That's never going to happen,' Jon said....
We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.
Which means every tomorrow is going to be worse than every today. Why feel sorry for myself today when tomorrow's bound to be worse?
I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.
Well, no one says you can be happy about everything," I said. "I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you're crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this way, I think he's e...
Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.
I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all th...