This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.