The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one.
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.
It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.
I want her to be safe. I want her to be mine.
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...
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...
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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.
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...
[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.Maybe later, I murmur, still distr...
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less.
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...
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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...
Two thousand years ago the night sky looked completely different, and so when you get right down to it, the Greek conceptions of star signs as related to birth dates are grossly inaccurate for today's...
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by almost everyone.