When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
So break up with him.
Love is the hardest thing in the world.
It is important to eat Oreos the right way.
I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.
Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on.Then why bother playing? I asked. It was a whisper, this question.Because. You love the game. You love the peop...
Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me . . .
If in this narrative I have not yet paid Queen Sophia adequate consideration, particularly given the unrelenting domination the woman would soon claim over every single element of my life, I offer thi...
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
But it turns out that even if I don’t talk a lot, when it’s something that matters I still have a lot to say.
Finally I halted, my cloak soiled with grease and jam. Why was it that jam always coated me so?
And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being co...
Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.
How many times I have wondered what my fate might have been had I accompanied my parents that rainy spring morning. Such musings, I recognise, are more than a trifle insane, for envisioning what might...
Trying to make something sound innocent always backfires—I know that just from being a kid
The key to hell picks all locks
It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.
Bend like the sapling you are. With time we shall find your oaken core.
As for the queen, I had no more interest in her company than in plunging my face into a nest of hornets.
Lord Frederick had been a stalwart member of the Montagne court since at least the time of my grandfather; this I knew. Even more, he had the marvellous ability to pull peppermint drops from my ears,...