The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe. Suddenly she laughed and pulled away from me. She wiggled a hand out of her sleeping bag and wiped her face. "You slobbered on my nose," she said, and laughed

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

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

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.