This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.