Please don’t try to figure out who she is because then you might figure.
I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that.
I am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books Bill gives me to read. And just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. They are all my favorites. All of them.
Please don’t take this the wrong way. I’m not trying to make you feel uncomfortable. 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.
Sometimes, I look at my parents now and wonder what happened to make them the way they are.
At some point, you just pull of the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then its over and you’re relieved.
Even monsters are adorable when they’re little.
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight A’s when she was a teenager and she used to give me books to read. My father said that the books were a little too old for me, but I liked them so he just shrugged and let me read.
I know this will all be stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now these moments are not stories. This is happening.
And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives.
Quindi immagino che siano tanti i fattori che ci fanno essere come siamo. Molti, forse, non li conosceremo mai. Ma, anche se non possiamo essere noi a decidere da dove veniamo, possiamo scegliere la nostra meta. Ci sono altre cose che possiamo fare. Cercando di sentirci a posto.
Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.
A lot of parents make you feel very awkward when you meet them.
I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.
You have to live your life before you get to live your Heaven.
I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I’d do anything not to be this way. I’d do anything to make it up to everyone.
It’s strange to think about your teachers as being people.
And I made Aunt Helen a promise to only cry about important things because I would hate to think that crying as much as I do would make crying for Aunt Helen less than it is.
I feel infinite.” And.