"Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house."
- Lisa Eley
"Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty."
- Shaun David Hutchinson
"History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are."
"It's a date.""It's a cookie.""It's a cookie date."
"Bonding over illegal drugs hadn't magically solved our problems,"
"The tallest slugger touched my forehead, and I ignited like a sparkler on the Fourth of July. Shards of dazzling light rippled under my skin. I was the constellation Grus. The Trifid Nebula. I was the..."
"Just the perfect peace of nothingness. That's what I believed."
"Apologies often cannot undo pain; but they can acknowledge it. And part of the cruelty of bullying is that the bruises it leaves are on the inside—it’s a hidden form of violence, shrouded by shame."
- Mathew N. Schmalz
"Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being."
- Karen Mueller Coombs
"My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner."