Silence is a protective coating over pain.
Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.
Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious
Always do what you're afraid to do.
She had been nobody and he had been golden.
They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.