“Wait untila year from nowwhere you say,“Holy fuck,I can’t believe I was going to kill myself before I etcetera’d…before I went skinny dipping in Tennessee,made my own IPA,tried out for a game show,rode a camel drunk,learned to waltz with clumsy old people,photographed electric jellyfish,built a sailboat from trash,taught someone how to read,ect. Ect. Etc.”The red washingdown the bathtubcan’t change the color of the seaat all.”

“The red washingdown the bathtubcan't change the color of the seaat all.”

“Go to other countries. Not a typical backpacking tour. Planned tourmeans you will hang with Americans on bikes and flirt with drunkGermans and someone will steal your Levi’s in the hostel and a guyfrom Poland will sock you in the face while bad techno playseverywhere and you will learn nothing except that your face hurts andnot everyone showers. Get into other cultures and talk politics andlove. Meeting other people is the only way to know if you believe whatyou believe cause it’s been handed to you, or if it really rings truein your heart.Getting lost should be seen as a sweet chance to be found.Remember, you belong everywhere.”

“In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.”

“When I am alone and my skull is ripsaw I want to jump into the womb of any bonfire, I want to leap into the ceiling fan head first, but I need that fan this coming summer.”

“I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.”

“I can not love you until you can love our beautiful waitress in the simple way that I do.”