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I can barely breathe. I feel like I’m going to explode. Jake Wilder is kissing me. French-kissing me. Is he even supposed to be French-kissing me for the play? I thought… Oh, who cares if he’s supposed to or not. He is, that’s all that matters.

That’s the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you’re left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull a trigger.

Because what is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it. It can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog; hidden behind a curve of road, and then suddenly there in full glory. Its waves come like breaths, in and out, in and out, body stretched to forever in its possibilities, and yet its heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic.

Obviously, Josh and Mel, like all old friends, have history, and history is rife with skirmishes and peace treaties and political coups. But I should have done more to get us to, I don’t know, a ceasefire or something. “Lay down your arms, don’t you know it’s Halloween!

I refuse to accept failure. If we are going to succeed in education, we must do more than everyone else.-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?

Unfortunately, every year thousands of students end up in one or more of these categories: jail, pregnant, dropping out, gangs, or dead where this vicious cycle will only get worse unless someone else changes this irreplaceable system.- -Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?

Adults have led education for eons and don't let students have any say. If this is going to work, we need a different approach.-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?

And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.

Thank God I didn't have to see his smug face. Sometimes, I wished I had a pie that I could smash into it. Well, if by pie I meant anvil, then yes. I smiled at the visual. I really was sick.