The more I learn about life and people, the more I realise that everyone has a story and everyone’s story is the biggest in their own mind.” – Laylla Jonson

I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker...

Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn’t. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he’d turn around and kick and buck and...

I just want to this about that.

This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I’d be famous, rich, and thin.

By the second cycle of the solstice of the warm time, the One will face the enemy. And the One will unearth the Shield of the Northern Lights and smote the enemy with daring and...

You’ll understand someday, James.

He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.

I’m working hard to have a good life.You don’t need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant...

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is...

Murphy’s law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you’re an optimist.)

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?

Some secret of nurture withered a generation or two before I arrived, if it had ever existed before among the poor, marginalized people on the edges of Europe from whom I descend. Both my parents...

Being married definitely took work. When we fought, I felt like I wanted to float away and drown, whereas before I knew I could walk away without any strings attached.

Me parece que de nada vale correr si siempre ha de irse por el mismo camino, cerrado, de nuestra personalidad. Unos seres nacen para vivir, otros para trabajar, y otros para mirar la vida. Yo...

I was a late bloomer. I was still naïve about what 16 year olds today have known for years. I remember sitting up and taking notice—of the world, my body, others—in a way never before...

That’s what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.

A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong.

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

If I’m going to fail, I want to fail trying.

I couldn’t believe it.Something wasn’t right.I thought, “Batman smokes cigarettes.”I couldn’t believe it. “Batman smokes fucking cigarettes.”I walked away and saw that Batman was just this stupid guy dressed up in a rubber suit, just...

In no mood for one of her silly games, I snatched it off her and scanned the page. It turned out to be a list of names, all of them boys, and some of whom...

somebody.” I guess you could say I was slightly disappointed at the outcome.

If there’s something I’m not good at, it’s usually because I just organically despise it. I can’t help that. I’m fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.

It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I’ve started seeing everything I didn’t have.

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.

I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could not, because the work he did was considered essential to the...

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

But it wasn’t anyone! … What could I say I was a freak – an Empty.

Hey, can I come in?

There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever you’ve been doing...

And then I know I’m being a man, not just some kid who’s upset and wants it his way.

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.

So you’re the little smart ass from Poleglass.”I wanted to point out he sounded like Dr. Seuss but bit my lip and remembered the warning the old lady gave me.

But sometimes you have to make a decision with your heart instead of your head, and that’s what I did. I know I’ve made the right decision even if it takes my brain a little...

Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen...

It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

Ready, fire, aim.

But you are my wife!” when I didn’t do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.

We are brilliant shades of light, we can not be contained”-Boys of the Fatherless-

…before I was going to college, my secret plan was to one day not tell anybody and just get on some bus to some random city and just move there and become this totally different...

…for they was never a young man yet who don’t want to go out and right a wrong, or kill a man, or have to do something to earn his right to what is there...

As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.