Koty Neelis

“My brother has autism and growing up we just never really connected. Then one day I started reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy out loud and something about that book clicked with him. After that we became closer.”

This is surprisingly good.

So we’d lay there and talk about where we’d be and where’d we go. We could feel the warm rain coming in from the lake if we sat on the balcony and reached our hands out to the sky.

1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

The scene: You’re going to your ex’s wedding. He’s not just any ex, he’s THE ex, the one you thought you were going to spend forever with, at least when you two were walking the halls of your liberal Midwestern college campus.

A home. Love. A relationship that could actually work. No, these are not the things that happen to bad people, to broken people, to people who come from an unconventional home.

We’ve all been there. You’re at a wedding reception and someone gets up to give a toast to the newly married couple.

If there’s anything a great summer needs besides music it’s a great list of books to read as well.

They don’t let their emotions run their lives.

You own your own story.

“Don’t lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don’t do it again. Ever.”