I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.

As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.

I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.