We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

I found plain truth very interesting.

[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.