I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

Some things are created to be together.

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.