I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.

I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers

there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.

Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.

I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said.

I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.