“How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken ...”

“As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay.”

“All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three.”

“I'm usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven't been to before, so it's a way to not look weird. If I find something I've read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.”

“Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less n...”

“No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.”

“Every day, there is a golden opportunity just waiting to be discovered.”

“Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk”

“The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.”

“Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, Coming out! She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they...”

“...both he and she were creek beds, quiet when they were full and quiet when they were dry. But when they were half-full, wearing a coat of shallow water, the current bumped over the rocks and vall...”

“Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, “Coming out!” She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged th...”

“You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”

“How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?”

“Staying in alignment with truth will always illuminate the path of another souls journey.”