It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

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.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.

At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.