TOP FIVE WAYS PEOPLE CAN SURPRISE YOU 5. Just when you think they’ve given up on you, they prove that they never will. 4. They find a way to speak up after staying silent for so long. 3. They defend you when you least expect it. 2. By showing you how life can get better now. 1. By helping you find a place to belong.

It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.

Everyone at his table laughs. They know I can hear them. They just don't care.

A geek is like a dork. Someone who’s on the fringe, who you wouldn’t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me.” “You’re not a nerd!” “It’s okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me I’m weird.” I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. “I mean, why be normal?

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.

No two people can see the world in the same way. No matter what you’re looking at, no one is seeing it the same way you are.