How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read." This made them laugh because they knew I meant it honest, not show-off. Then they told me their favorites, and we sat quiet.

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

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.

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

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the "I love you" was it.

There are other people who have it a lot worse