Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.

But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.