No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.

That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.

Like I said, some people think it’s weird that my best friend is a girl. Sometimes I think it’s weird, too. Mostly people assume that we’re boyfriend and girlfriend, which I guess we could be. But that just seems too teen-movie, if you know what I mean. A boy and girl are best friends, neither of them dates anyone else, and then one night they look at each other and—bang—they realize they’ve been in love with each other the whole time. Everyone’s happy and they go to the big dance together.

I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours.

If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.