Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their hands bleed. Girls who haul water for witches. Girls who wander through...
Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don’t trust wolves. Don’t steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don’t trust people who want to shar...
For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her.If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
Hazel kissed boys for all kinds of reasons -- because they were cute, because she was a little drunk, because she was bored, because they let her, because it was fun, because they looked lonely, becau...
He leans in and closes his eyes. Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop.
He looks like the good boy he's never been.
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky...
I am tired of caring, I say. Why should I?Because they could kill you!They better, I say to her. Because anything less than that isn’t going to work.
I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.
I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of it
When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?
You don’t know what you are.
You have a skill. You can do something no one else can, Barron says. Seriously. You know what’s good about that? It’s valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I...
You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.
Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder, Locke calls after me.We would be surprised to find that, I call back.
In her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste i...
Don't take it personally, Call said. Lots of people find me really annoying. It's not just you.
Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.
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