But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family. She stops now. Leans over me so...

My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I’m mad at myself.

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal

It’s okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life. But that’s what I want and I could see...

Trong một góc lặng của ICU, tôi bắt đầu nghiêm túc suy ngẫm về những điều đau khổ mà tôi đã cố lờ đi trong suốt ngày hôm nay. Sẽ như thế nào nếu tôi...

Next time I get sick, you can tell that to me. You can be my girl in the mountains.””Okay”, I say.”I’ll be your mountain girl and take care of you.

Kaže da se svijet dijeli na ljude koji zamišljaju svoj sprovod i one koji ga ne zamišljaju, te da pametni i umjetnički nastrojeni ljudi spadaju u prvu kategoriju.

Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.

Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you’ll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

You still have a family,” she whispers.

She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. ‘You still have a family,’ she whispers.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

It wasn’t even a fight, really. We didn’t shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.

I’m not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I’m not sure that I want to wake up.

But that’s the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must’ve know I’d become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.

Adam’s lips are set in a grime line. I can’t tell if he’s about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it’s the former. For you own, I hope...

A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits.

Ali sada shvaćam da je umrijeti lako. Teško je živjeti.

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

Concert’ doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

It’s just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. – Adam

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person’s absence will affect you more than another’s.

C’mon, Mee,’ Henry said. ‘You’re among family.’ ‘Totally,’ Kim said.

You made me stay!”And there it is. A hollow blown through my heart, confirming what some part of me has always known.She knows.

Why wasn’t I nicer to Alice? When she has been nothing but sweet to me? When I actually like her? I know I should say something to her, but before I can find the words,...

Please Mia,” he implores. “Don’t make me write a song.

Samo mislim da su sprovodi vrlo slični smrti. Možeš imati želje i planove, ali na kraju ipak nemaš kontrolu ni nad čim.

We were all forged in the crucible.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.

He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he’d used with Kendra, says, ‘If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash’–he stops and switches to his lispy, sassy voice–‘or big-ass queer’–now he switches...

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key,...

She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.

Accidents. It’s all about the accidents.

In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in...

My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.

Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play...

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain’t such a line between faking and being.

I don’t really care. I shouldn’t have to care. I shouldn’t have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You’ve ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can’t say any of that.

She didn’t care that people called her a bitch. ‘It’s just another word for feminist,’ she told me with pride.

Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won’t feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up...

even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point

Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out.

He laughs a little, but there’s something in his voice that sounds almost reverent.’You never know what will last.’He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the...