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popularity is in fact a democracy. it is a fair and square contest. every month, students vote, and the kindest, most compassionate people are always chosen to be the most popular. just as we always choose the best person in the country to be president, we always pick the most deserving people to be popular. they, in turn, humbly accept and prove to be role models for all the rest of the students, because their position is so much based on worth and not at all on looks or cruelty.
I pierced my ear four times and ditched my old friends,
I don’t want you to be my definition, and still I want you to mean something to me.
A car might have passed, crickets may have sung … all I can remember is the silence. When I turned to look at you, I was afraid to move again— the moment was just too beautiful to be lost.
Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.
I found myself telling her that the amazing thing about seeing a woman naked is how open her body is, how you can see right inside her. And it’s astonishing and complicated and intimidating and incredible. All those layers to feel, to read. You look there and you feel like you’re knowing something, even if you’re not really sure what it is.
What I Love (Three Examples) Being myself Being by myself Flirting without consequences
A Cue from Nature Run outside during a thunderstorm That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration That’s what unlonely is like
Our friendship is made of bendy straws, long midnight letters, my so-called life marathons, sleepless sleepovers, diner milk shakes, apron strings, a belief in beauty, sucking helium, and the most trust I’ve ever felt for anyone, including myself.
There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don’t see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy.
I conjure our first date, our second, our fourth. He tries to stop me. As much as he seeks reassurance, he hates being talked about.
