See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.