Let It Snow

You’ve just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on

it’s not what the universe gives us that matters. It’s what we give the universe.”

I know no one is perfect, that behind every façade of perfection is a writhing mess of subterfuge and secret sorrows

It was feeling just beyond fear and somewhere to the left of sadness. Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes

once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

you’re not, like, a threat

but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things

being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Being sixteen means you have to be a genius conversational editor.

I had been tracked, like a bear.
“Sorry to make you go to all that trouble,” I said.
“I didn’t have to go that far, really. You’re about three streets over. You just kept going in loops.”
A really inept bear.