Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.