The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.

All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.

Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.

Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you.

Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating.

I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.