After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this early so that I could go runnin….

I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the pe….

So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the e….

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people..

I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the….

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string….

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past..

(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiri….

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron..

You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the onl….

Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or perhaps has a little too much to dr….

I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel t….

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what h….

But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it so….

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stu….

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?.

I don't believe in the concept of a soul mate. Because we are all unique, but we're also simply too similar..