Quotes from Michael Thomas Ford

One time Allie and I skipped school and went to see this foreign film called Los Diablos, where these villagers found a glowing blue ball and peeled pieces off of it to see what was inside. Only the ball was really radioactive, and they all died from the poison. I think that's what happens when you look too deep inside for the truth. The poison comes out, and you die, even though you have beautiful glowing pieces of blue truth in your fingers.

I mean, how do you know if people are good for you or not? It's not like they come with an FDA approved sticker or anything.

I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.

It's like whoever sits up ther in Heaven had this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and it makes everything go crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.

Trust me no matter how horrible you feel or how bad things seem, there is always a way out. Suicide is never your only option.

He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed

How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings?

And it's not like I've never jacked off. I'm fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesn't is lying. That would be like having the coolest video game ever and never playing it. No one's that stupid.

So that's it. That's the big secret. I tried to kill myself on New Year's eve. Just like Sadie did last night. Only she really did it. I don't know all the detatils, just the basics. She took a bunch of pills. I don't know what they were or where she got them. I'd like to think they were Wonder Drug. Then at least she could have gone thinking she was flying.

No one ever tells you that when your heart breaks, you can feel it. But you can. It feels like something has crumbled inside you and the pieces are falling into your stomach. It hurts more than any punch ever could. You stop breathing, and for a while you can't remember how. When you finally do, it feels like your throat has closed up, like you're trying to suck air through a straw.

And did you know that Valentine's Day originally started when this emperor like a million years ago made marriage illegal because he thought it made soldiers weak? This priest—Valentine—married people in secret anyway, and he ended up having his head cut off because of it. So the first Valentine was some guy's head. There's some history for you. It's sort of perfect, when you think about it. Isn't falling in love a lot like losing your head?

There's nothing more complicated – or fragile – than the relationship between parents and their children. It's like no other relationship there is. And no one tells you how to make it work. Either you find your way or you don't.

I asked her, 'Did you like Sadie?' Juliet put down the book she was reading. 'I liked her the way you like a hurt dog,' she said. 'What do you mean?' I asked her. 'You feel sorry for it, and you want to help it, but you're not sure it won't bite you when you're not looking,' Juliet said.

Here's what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they're going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.

When did being single become a disease?

Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it's not okay for those people to do it themselves?

i swear to God, that was the question. Sometimes, I think there's someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there's an angel or more likely a demon assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. well, today it got an A plus

When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn't to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn't our fault.

If I were a girl, I'd be sucking every cock I could get my mouth on," Will said. "Fuck, I'd take on the whole football team at one time." Burke ran his hand through Will's hair. "Careful," he said. "You don't want to get a reputation as a bad girl. No one will marry you, then.

I have to keep her in line somehow or she'll think she's the boss of everything.

I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up in costumes that make him visible to us. Then we come up with a lot of very silly rules that we attribute to him and tell everyone if they don't follow those rules, they can't be part of the gang.

People still think what you look like is who you are.