It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She asked out of nowhere. "By 'it' do you mean herpes?" "You are too much," Mom said, "The book, Hazel. I mean the book.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?

my lungs sucked at being lungs.

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with Jesus