Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

so what brings you to the doctor today?" "hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people" "i know about that. i've got it too. maybe it's catching." "not catching enough

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.