Love is keeping the promise anyway.

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.