She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.

It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

The Venn Diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.

Life has become the future.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.