Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.