“All I wanted was to share myself with him...in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.”

“I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didnt just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasu...”

“Then he gave me a sweet kiss as if I was his one and only lover.”

“I didnt know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?”

“It reached a point where the paranoia was getting to me. Everywhere I looked, it seemed like people were hanging out, wanting to date, hooking up, wanting to hook upit was relationships, relationsh...”

“Boys dont cryor at least thats what everybodys supposed to believe.”

“But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely t...”

“Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.”

“Just for future reference, don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely says it, but John Hinckley filled up a whole journal with it. To pu...”

“But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.”

“The music has teased and tickled me in an empty space that the most vacuous.”

“My life is never empty because my heart is always full.”

“He knew too well the sting of loneliness and how over time it stole you away, piece by piece, until a mere shell remained.”

“Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.”

“If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love”