What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

by Kate Fagan

Megan: I feel that everyone struggles with their mental health to a degree because life is hard but mental illness is when that struggle inhibits you from your daily life.

Living with a ghost is frightening enough, but if you change houses to escape it and the ghost is present in the new space, then you’ve confirmed that it’s not the house the ghost is haunting. It’s you.

Things are rarely as they seem, especially if overcompensation distorts the image we’re presented.

Our ability to change things is not increasing at the same rate as our ability to know about them.

2016 is not the worst year ever, but it’s the year I started feeling like the Internet would only ever induce the sense of powerlessness that comes when the sphere of what a person can influence remains static, while the sphere of what can influence us seems to expand without limit, allowing no respite at

Efficient communication does not mean effective communication.

My favorite part about our friendship is that I’ve seen you change more than almost any other person since the day I met you, yet you’ve always remained the same Emma.

when you don’t know the stakes, when you don’t know how high the wire actually is, dancing along the edge doesn’t seem reckless; it seems like the only place to walk.

How much of our happiness is fueled by society’s validation of our choices?

Dopamine is the main neurotransmitter involved in time processing. Dopamine agonists—compounds that activate dopamine receptors—tend to speed up our perception of time, which passes more quickly.

perhaps some things really are better left to the imagination.

writers asking themselves what insight a certain detail actually offers the reader.