Ironic, Betty Lou said at last. The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers.It takes fr...
She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and star...
She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh.My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timidintroverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In...
The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify...
The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I awaken to each day, and at night I feel it is more than the stars looking down on me.
To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that’s a trophy enough for a guy’s...
When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.
Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.
You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day. It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that ti...
You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next mornin...
As we meandered, she said my name three times:Stargirl?Yes?That was better than TV.It was.Stargirl?Yes?Does the sun do that everyday?Yes.Stargirl?Yes?Everyday is sun day.
He stared at me. She liked you, boy. The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink.Yes, I said.She did it for you, you know.What?Gave up her self, for a while there. She loved you that much. What...
If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people. A zillion? Even a zillion. A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And...
She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as nothing I walked in a gray world of nothing.
Star people are rare.
Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She churned her fists like an egg-beater. Every action echoed...
When does the enchantment start?We were sitting side by side, facing the mountains.It started when the earth was born. Her eyes was closed. Her face was golden in the setting sun. It never stops. It i...
And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.
Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can'...
I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my...
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