it’s easy once you start. you’re thirteen and get excited too easily. you want things desperately, try to hold onto them with every force in your body. and when your plans fall through, when you’re sitting in your room hearing somebody talk at you about how sad they are for you: this is where it …

Don’t take a smile at face value. Everyone is hiding something. Everyone. A dark past, a secret lover, a broken heart, or a damaged soul. But that’s their secret. Let people tell you things when they’re ready to. Don’t push for secrets that aren’t yours to have. Respect them, and you’ll earn their trust. broken …

Cigarettes are very sad things, if you look at them in a certain way. Watch how the colourless smoke curls into the grey air. Watch how the person holds it – lightly – between their numbed down fingers. And look into their eyes each time they put it to their lips. What do you see …