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

I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.