instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy and nervous and hopeful and despairing and i tell myself not to look obsessively at my buddy list, but it might as well be projected onto the insides of my eyelids. at 8:05 his name pops up, and i start to count. i only get to twelve before his IM pops up.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.

It feels like we’ve stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.