When I run, I always pretend I am running toward Nikki, and it makes me feel like I am decreasing the amount of time I have to wait until I see her again.

Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television. I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing?

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

I am practicing being kind over being right.

Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.