Fiction Is A Piece Of Truth That

Teenagers Are Free Verse Walking Around On Two Legs.

And While It Is True That I Got The Best Woman In The World, I Don't Think Love Saves You.

... Suffering Does Not Ennoble. It Destroys. To Resist Destruction, Self-hatred, Or Lifelong Hopelessness, We Have To Throw Off The Conditioning Of Being Despised, The Fear Of Becoming The They That Is Talked About So Dismissively, To Refuse Lying Myths And Easy Moralities, To See Ourselves As Human, Flawed, And Extraordinary. All Of Us Extraordinary

I Did Not Begin With Craft, I Began With Strong Feelings And Worked Toward Craft.

He Never Said "don't Tell Your Mama." He Never Had To Say It. I Did Not Know How To Tell Anyone What I Felt, What Scared Me And Shamed Me... (109)