If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you belie...
If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when...
If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?
If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that’s the only lasting t...
If you asked my dad about selecting any kind of professional career, he’d tell you, Don’t make a date with a heart attack. Meaning: You’ve got to pace yourself and not forget to slow down. No job is f...
If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you.
If people thought you were dying they gave you their full attention.
If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.
If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
If I did have a tumor, I would name it Marla. Marla, the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you would stop tonguing it, but you can't.
Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.
I'm trapped here, in a nosedive, in my life, in the cockpit of a jet-liner with the flat yellow of the Australian outback coming up fast. And there's so many things I want to change but can't. It's al...
I'm thirteen years old, and I'm somewhat overweight. Meaning: I'm dead and fat. Meaning: I'm a piggy-pig-pig, oink-oink, real porker. Just ask my mom. I'm thirteen and fat - and I will stay this way f...
I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to...
I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.
I write: All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I would pay snakes to bite her.
I was eleven years old with menarche barreling down on me like a speeding bloodmobile.
I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.