My life was over; my life had just begun.
Lindsey took my father's hand and watched his face for movement. My sister was growing up before my eyes. I listened as she whispered the words he had sung to the two of us before Buckley was born:Sto...
Just that winter she had found herself saying to a young woman who worked with her at the tasting bar on Saturdays that between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the...
It was late in Ruana and Ray's visit when Samuelstarted talking about the gothic revival house that Lindseyand he had found along an overgrown section of Route 30. Ashe told Abigail about it in detail...
I had been kissed once by someone I liked. His name was Ray and he was Indian. He had an accent and was dark. I wasn't supposed to like him. Clarissa called his large eyes, with their half closed lids...
Heaven wasn't perfect.
He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and...
Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison seeped in. At first he couldn't even get up. He lay there under a heavy weight...
Every time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like...
Do you miss Susie?Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt.More than anyone will ever know.
Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
At nearly two months,the idea of it as news was fading in the hearts of all but my family-and Ruth
All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
You're dead and you have to accept it.
When they reached the lobby and the doors opened I knew they were meant to be there, the four of them, alone.
When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.
Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went to a part of heaven we didn't share. I missed her then, but it...