I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.

...I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.

Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.

Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't.When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are--how impossible to reach.

Reaching and reached. Cassia

She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.

We need you.""I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.

Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

Only other people can make you feel real.

Experience is a collection of our successes and failures.

Why?Why?Do you follow me and then unfollow me?Do you add me as a friend and then delete me?

I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.

Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

i was the never the girl who thought i need to make sure i look like all the other girl. i think you look best when you stand out