Because no, I didn’t push her away. I didn’t add to her pain or do anything to hurt her. Instead, I left her alone in that room. The only person who ….

Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy!.

If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star- late at night, only….

Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expos….

The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet..

His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. ….

Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on t….

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier..

You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could….

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth..

But I do know which is the least popular. The truth..

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down..

It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project..

And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye..

I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back..

I don't know exactly what it is, but it looks like interconnected websites where people show their photos and write about everything going on in thei….

But they were wrong. There was a reason..

That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, ….

Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through o….

I want to look back. To look over my shoulder and see the Stop sign with huge reflective letters, pleading with Hannah. Stop!.

The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't bookstores with sections dedicate….