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Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each re...more

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I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards...more

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I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

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Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

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You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

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...getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring.They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afte...more

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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think t...more

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...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the...more

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always felt like the Katherines dump me right...more

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I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.

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The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.

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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.