people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.

It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.