I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.

Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

Fun fact #1 about pomegranates: Pomegranates are awesome.Fun fact #2: Pomegranates are like little explosions of awesome in your mouth.Fun fact #3: A lot of people think you're not supposed to eat the seeds of a pomegranate - but that's not true, people who tell you that are liars, and they don't know anything about life, and they should never be trusted.