All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to.” Halley: “The what?” Macon: “The Jedi Mind Trick.” He looked at me. “Didn’t you ever see Star Wars?

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.