A feeling can't kill you.

Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will.

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

We accept gods that don't speak to us. We accept gods that would place us in a world filled with injustices and do nothing as we struggle. It's easier than accepting that there's nothing out there at all, and that, in our darkest moments, we are truly alone.

In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.

We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.

I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.