He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever
I want her to be safe. I want her to be mine.
I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his bo...
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really wan...
Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.
I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by almost everyone.
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.
Simply-quotes Follow I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent o...
Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just mean...
The letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.
Doves coo in the rafters above us as she sits down on the blanket, her loathed dress whispering around her. She pops a grape into her mouth and sighs. This is so unreal. I feel like a princess.She cou...
We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less.
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
The Thai people are pathologically shy. Combine that with a reluctance to lose face by giving a wrong answer, and it makes for a painfully long [ESL] class. Usually I ask the students to work on exerc...
In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.