We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.

You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.