She could shut out the whole world, including herself.
This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one
The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred.
She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself sma...
Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
Every day a question mark.
Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.
I wish you all a long and happy life
How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?
Horror on earth is real and it is everyday. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
There were also the Masters of Arcane Knowledge. Everyone begrudged their presence among the gifteds. These were the kids that could break down an engine and build it back again - no diagrams or instr...
When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things.
Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread.
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
Stones and bones;snow and frost;seeds and beans and polliwogs.Paths and twigs, assorted kisses,We all know who Susie misses...
She had a stare that stretched to infinity. She was, in that moment, not my mother but something separate from me.
People grow up by living.