I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

Listen,"Kristy said," the truth is,nothing is guranteed. You know better than anybody." She looked at me hard,making sure I knew what she meant.I did."So don't be afraid.Be alive.

Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.