Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

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

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it