Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.

I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.