When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.