“Ive never been with a boy who hasnt seen me naked. Its always the squeaky futon, bear-it-all, turn-off-the-lights quickstep. Dont chalk it up to daddy issues.Maybe Im sick of keeping private parts ...”

“He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, its addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted.”

“I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. Ive never understood how being loved fully could change your entire perspective of the world. I only ever unders...”

“Wrap him up in floral wallpaper, wishing the envelopes I seal were his lips, leaving hickeys like stamps to show where he's been.”

“Moving on should be a required high school classbecause Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.”

“The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;chose Ange...”

“Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked profe...”

“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of ones life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.”

“With endless pharmacological supplies at our fingertips, we do not need to penetrate the motives behind our actions, feelings, transgressions, dreams, and phobias. High on chemical substances we ca...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone. ”

“It was what she imagined doing heroin would be like: terrible for you but impossible to resist.”

“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”