Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men.

I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.

It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

I nod like I’m listening,like we’re communicating, and she never knows the difference.

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.