“I don't think there's a good reason to run unless someone's chasing me. Seriously.”

“I don't want to know their secrets. There's only so far I can go.”

“I know what it's like to look for someone to fill up the whole inside you.”

“I lie in my bed and think about poking something sharp into my skin. To see if it will hurt, to see if I'll bleed, to test whether I'm still alive. I don't though. For one, because moving means effort. Two, because I'm afraid if [I] start bleeding that I won't stop myself from draining all life from my body. Or worse, that I will.”

“There's not always time to say everything.”

“I love you. I don't always understand you, but I love you.”

“He tilts his head forward, so close that our noses actually touch, and he winds my braid around his finger. I hold my breath and try to turn off the part of my brain that insists on analyzing every situation and running it through different scenarios and outcomes before taking action. Instead I press on, determined to worry about the consequences later." Sam from WHO I KISSED.”