Innocent until proven guilty.

I believe in the goodness of people. I think that everyone is perfect until I learn otherwise. I believe that human beings are dominantly good and that evil is a man made creation. I believe that there is good in everyone and I believe that the world is safe.

Do I sound naïve?

I know that there are bad people and that's why I check the backseat before getting in my car and its why I lock the doors and triple check to make sure they are locked.

But what I'm saying is that I want to live in my own utopian society where people are good and where you can rest easy when you are out at night. I want to live in a world where it is permanently October and where people have bonfires on the beach.  I want to live in a place where kisses mean something and where everyone can be original and different and everyone is okay with it.


“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”  


I want to live in a world where everyone is a little bit like Augustus Waters.