But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

Imagine others complexly.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?