Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you." "What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!

It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.

The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?