"This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever played a dead body on stage or screen. It takes a big actor to lie on the ground and keep quiet. Droop on, my lifeless friends" - Maureen Johnson

I like taking showers during thunderstorms and bouncing on trampolines at midnight and playing pretend in dusty bedrooms and starting books I'll never finish because I half-finished love affairs are the preferred method of affection.

I like eating ice cold cereal on the kitchen floor and typing words into keyboards just to hear the sound and setting alarms thirty minutes early so I have time to make believe and staring into space on clear night.

I like listening to crickets hum all at once and exploring through draws that aren't mine and writing letters in cursive and stepping into sun filtered rooms and whispering "this time next year" because it gives the hope and impression that today is not the end.

I like.