don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

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