Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

...New Beginning to the same old story

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

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.