Easy comfort isn't comforting

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.