I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.