Adam Silvera

the world can’t be against us if it brought us together

You were always asking me—begging me, sometimes—to tell you more about my life and how my day was, and I always shut down. But me talking is all we’ve got now, and I’m crossing my fingers and toes and unmentionables that you can hear me

MATEO
10:12 a.m.

“I know I’m not supposed to have any more ideas. . . .”

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
—Steve Jobs

“Everyone’s going to expect smiles from us,” I say.
“Everyone can go suck it,”

This’ll be the day that I die. . . . This’ll be the day that I die. . . .”

“I can’t believe I’m bringing a boy home for the first time and there’s no one here for you to meet.”

After all, to most people, a bird is nothing compared to an actual human being, because actual human beings put on ties and go to work, they fall in love and get married, and they have kids and raise them. But birds do all of this too

we gotta stop caring about how others will react to our deaths and stop second-guessing ourselves.

To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that’s all.