So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior position” that she wouldn’t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want.

If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.