It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.