Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

...all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.

Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...