Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.