Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?

I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles. "You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.

Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

We want what you no longer want.

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.