I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.

Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

I’m a screwed-up person who no longer knows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter. If I were your Nikki, I would have come back to you on Christmas Day, but I’m not Nikki. I know. And I’m sorry.