How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.

A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.

I always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.