You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

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.

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.

Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.