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I choose guys. I choose girls. I choose people. But most of all: I choose.

So this is creepy,' I say, motioning to the school with my non-key-shiv hand.

I don't get why we call it a crush when it feels more like a curse.

I hate that there's never anyting good on TV on Saturday afternoons. It's like even the networks are trying to get you off your ass and have a life.

When it was for you," he said, his voice soft. "I enjoyed playing the piano when it was for you.

There were aches that couldn't be medicated. I guessed there were just some things that had to be felt.

To my mom, powdered iced tea is almost as bad as the possibility of being left behind in the wake of the rapture. "You

This feeling that the world was so pleased to call love destroyed people every day and it would do that to me too.

Perfection is nothing more than a phantom shadow we're all chasing

But that's me. I'm fat. It's not a cuss word. It's not an insult. At least it's not when I say it. So I always figure why not get it out of the way?

I didn't want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.

I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling.

I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.

Child, you don't need heels. You're fierce all on your own." She

I may be uncomfortable, but I refuse to be ashamed

My mind is a maze and I'm chasing a shadow.

I think maybe it's the things we don't want to talk about that are the things people most want to hear.

I fell asleep, with her curled int my chest and my chin resting on top of her head, scared for tomorrow because this was too perfect to last.

Your life changes sometimes and it only takes a few words to bridge the gap between now and then.

I suck in a breath. This is what it feels like when your life starts happening, I think.

To appear effortless requires much effort.

Good friendships are durable. They're meant to survive the gaps and the growing pains.

I hate this idea that boys are thinking about sex nonstop and girls are thinking about - what? Stationery and garden gnomes? No.

The idea that I'm someone's best friend fills my rib cage with summer.

And I guess that's when I decided being good at something didn't mean you had to do it. Just 'cause something's easy doesn't make it right.

I get called a freak everyday. I might as well make a show of it.

Plans were promises in disguise.

Maybe 'cause you don't always have to win a pageant to wear a crown.

She was right. Karma was a bitch, but so was I.

What about having huge, bumpy thighs means that I need to apologize?

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

there is no higher achievement for a southern woman than the ability to eat barbecue and walk away stain free.

The older I got, the more aware I became of time and how I was wasting mine.

I knew I would never travel through space or fly a plane, but sitting there with the girl I loved - there was no question about me loving her

Does love still exist if you can't say it? If you can't admit it?

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

Beautiful, he says. Fat, I think. But can't I be both at the same time?

I guess the magic of being someone else is lost when you can never quite shed your own skin.

Well, aren't you just having a come-apart?

I'm fat. I'm happy. I'm insecure. I'm bold.

This is me. Back me up or back the fuck out.

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.

I am a total badass. A fat badass.

Actually, at home, my parents simply referred to him as "bro.

Then he left, and with him he took the sun, the moon, the stars, and anything inside of me that might have been good.

In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

I will survive, because I have survived.

My first kiss. It's the fastest thing that lasts forever.

Maybe you only ever notice the distance when it's you who's being left behind.

I don't get it - how you can feel like there are no consequences for living with your feelings on your sleeve.

You can't apologize for my feelings and expect things to be better." He paused. "Especially not when you're the reason for them.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose. - Dolly Parton

For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured.

All my favorite things start as bad ideas.

It's okay. Suddenly, the pain is starting to fade."
"Yeah, revenge does that.

I wish every day of my life could be this absurd.

I don't really enjoy it, Mom."
"And you've always felt this way?"
"I don't know. I guess I want a break.

Y'all girls are different versions of the same story,

thanks to Harvey, the year I died had become the year I lived. I

Not everyone who goes to private school is rich. Especially not the poor kids who can play basketball.

I was so scared that all the big things I wanted would never be anything more than wants.

But the good news is that since this is the worst day ever, tomorrow can only be better. Even if it's by a little bit.

I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future.

There's some kind of peace that comes with knowing that for every person who is waiting to be found, there's someone out there searching.