I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

apparel, n.: There are times I don’t mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you.

I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther