You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.