When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
That’s how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don’t have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.
Remember that no matter where I am or what I’m doing I’ve got a special place inside me that’s all for you. It’s been there since the day we met.
Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.
And I don’t just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you – the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It’s the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.
Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they’ve lived that out, you’ll know.
I know I shouldn’t say this – I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil – and yet here it comes: “It’s not too late to change your mind.
When you go to high school, and you’re trying to figure yourself out, sometimes it takes doing things that you don’t like in order to figure out what you don’t like. But it’s important to maintain your sense of self throughout the journey.
That’s how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I’m still waiting.
Because love, love never finishes.
The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
My whole life has been one big broken promise.
I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.
Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.