Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.

You never forget your first love.

It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.