She fell apart because that's what happens.

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?