She responds by kissing me harder and longer and deeper. She loves me too. She's just afraid.

I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.

My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together. This month we're taking meditation to free the mind. Last month it was Rolfing. Have you ever Rolfed, Tone?" "Only after the school's shepherd's pie," I said.

I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I'm transported across the universe to a world I've never been.

I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.