...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.

Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

She had been nobody and he had been golden.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.