This is our future. So, don’t blame us for being reckless, irresponsible and high. Life should be about living, seeking, loving, crying, being heartbroken or drinking on the rooftops at 1 a.m. We are just trying to suck out the last drops of feeling before the world runs dry. Before it’s your time to go and our time to face what you have given us.

I was totally stripped down; all I had to show for myself was … me. And for all the time I was spending alone, I didn’t really know who I was.

It’s important to acknowledge that big moves — especially to start school — will derail your current reality. Life is going to change completely. But this makes space for new passions, experiences, and lessons to come into your life.

I wish my fear of stagnation wouldn’t collide so well with your stillness. Maybe then I wouldn’t need to drive around at night, spilling words, to feel like I’m moving.

I tell flame-haired girls and golden bright boys that I love them, I’m rejected, and I heal.

The world is yours, take care.

I wish I could give you all of my naiveness so that you could allow yourself to fall in love with the world once again.

The city that birthed me does not feel like my mother, but rather a close aunt.

Not just any yellow, the yellow that drapes a worn chair in the corner of your room, reminding you of expired sunshine in the earliest hours of the day.

Our giggles had been replaced with frowns and absolutely nothing was glittering. You were speaking in a dead language that I was no longer fluent in.