High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life.