Arlaina Tibensky

Suffocation is a cruel way to go.

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

What is family anyway but people who are always supposed to be there for you? Family should be rock solid, the earth beneath your feet, wind beneath your wings, and all that.

Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.

Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.

Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.