And he caught his sister
making out on the back porch
And his mother and father never kissed
or even talked
And the girl around the corner
wore too much makeup
That made him cough when he kissed her

but he kissed her anyway
because that was the thing to do
And at three a.m. he tucked himself into bed
his father snoring soundly

That's why on the back of a brown paper bag
he tried another poem

And he called it "Absolutely Nothing"
Because that's what it was really all about
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
And he hung it on the bathroom door
because this time he didn't think

he could reach the kitchen.”

Flannery O'Connor
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

George Orwell
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Sarah Dessen
“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”

Insanity comes from an Inflexible mind.

Diane Duane
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”