I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

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

Everyone still deserves to have their say.

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.