How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
I like being around funny people.
I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline could be contained.
I was re-experiencing these things that happened a long time ago, and I'm trying to relive it now, and I'm bringing all of my current motivations and personality into that which were not there at the time. It's hard to remember exactly who I was when I was ten, fifteen.
I don't do the like, "This led to this, and this was why this happened. " That doesn't feel real and isn't how I experience things.
I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.
When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.
We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.
There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.
There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.
Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.