Parents don’t know their children at all.No one knows anyone, in fact.

I don’t give a shit, Dad!””Well I do! I absolutely give a shit! This will completely exhaust you.””It’s my body. I can do what I like!””So you don’t care about your body now?””No, I’m sick...

I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don’t you dare tell me I don’t. Don’t you ever say it again!

It’s as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I’m the only one to see it.

Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet...

I’ve always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don’t.

I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling – it looked so clean and uncluttered, like...

Do you want this to be a love story?

I sit up in bed and watch her fiddle about in the back of my wardrobe. I think she’s got a plan. That’s what’s good about Zoey. She’d better hurry up though, because I’m starting...

I like you,” he said.He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important.He said, “I mean it. Whatever happens,...

Dust Glitter Rain

It’s all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.”Why are you saying that?”She might need permission to die, Cal.”I don’t want her to. She doesn’t have my permission.

Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, “God, it’s cold.”Question: What’s the probability they will kiss?

It’s really going to happen. I really won’t ever go back to school. Not ever. I’ll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I’ll never go to college or have a job. I won’t...

Moments. All gathering towards this one.

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.”No.”It might be important.”It might make her die.

We make patterns, we share moments.

But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue….No taste or smell or touch...

Yo soy yo y tú eres tú, todos los de allá fuera son ellos. Y todos somos diferentes e igualmente insignificantes.

I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he’d look at me the way boys do in...

Instructions for Dad.I don’t want to go into a fridge at an undertaker’s. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I got lonely?...

Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn’t know it would hurt this much. I didn’t know that everything good that’s ever happened in my life...

I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I’m sorry to leave you.