When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.

Men don't traipse. We... Swagger

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.