People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.

Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These are things I did with no consequences, no repercussions. My nineteen detentions were for smart answers and missed homework. There is no equivalent punishment for making the world a stranger place.

I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.

It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.

I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.

The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.

The world is full of unused corners.