The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

I think this is the ugliest place I’ve ever seen. Not just here. The whole state.” I hear my parents telling me not to be negative, which is funny because I’ve always been the happy one. It’s Eleanor who was moody. “I used to think that. But then I realized, believe it or not, it’s actually beautiful to some people. It must be, because enough people live here, and they can’t all think it’s ugly.” He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly see the beauty that’s there. In that moment I wish I could see it through his eyes.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.

The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad.

If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him last.