“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” — Ernest Hemingway

This is doing it right.

Why Girls Hate Each Other

I still don't know how to handle this. They don't teach the elders of a scene how to handle the youth. I guess that's why it's so special when the kids latch on to someone and tell them they've saved their life. It's even more special when that person embraces and it takes them on as a band of misfits. There is no correlation between being able to play an instrument or sing and being able to handle someone else's problems.

It's hard to live in a society where Emo is a dirty word, yet that is what is stalking me at every turn.

“Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. 
"Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do."
"What way might that be?"
"As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me."
" I am not afraid of you," Marco says.” 
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

White knuckles from holding on too tight.