It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.

Could he hear my heart pounding?

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.

The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin.

Tell me this is a nightmare

It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.

I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.

Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.

Dear Homeschool Mom, You've got this! God called you to it, and He will see you through it. Inhale Grace. Exhale Doubt.

The investments of your youth, are drafts upon your old age. Invest sheer poetry in yourself.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

When Internet parlance finds its way into our accepted vocabulary, it becomes a cliché.

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

You never know how much time you'll have.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.