We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.
Tags: mortality, inspiration, glbt

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Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
Tags: embrace, emotional, long, truth
If she were running through the rye, if she were headed towards the abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of my strength, with every scared beat of my heart, with every thought that could only be for her. And if I were to be running the same way, I’d like to think she’d do the same. But maybe her hands would be busy holding the book. Maybe she wouldn’t see me, too intent on looking for Phoebe from the carousel. Or waiting for Holden to hold her, to wrap her in the pages of his arms, to say she was the only one who truly knew him, as I plunged past her, sad to be leaving, and a little happy to be away.
Tags: reading, love, books
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.
Tags: reading, lines, books
flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.
Tags: relationships, love
i want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth.
Tags: relationships, pretending
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