And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?

lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.