And later that night to be with my family at dinnertime and have things just be like they always were. That was the amazing part. Things just keep going. We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

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.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.