When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.
When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob,...
When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.
When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of...
When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gums when a tooth falls out. you can chew, youc an eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where al...
When some-one dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, there are plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where a...
When she wanted to escape her life, she read books
When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.
When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place. She stood with her hands on her hips, stoically accepting...
When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.
When it comes to social justice, the role of the white ally is not to be a savior or a fixer. Instead, the role of the ally is to find other white people and talk to make them see that many of the ben...
When did they stop putting toys in cereal boxes? When I was little, I remember wandering the cereal aisle (which surely is as American a phenomenon as fireworks on the Fourth of July) and picking my b...
When Javert finally realized that Valjean had something he himself didn't—mercy—did he shrug and find a new obsession, like knitting or Game of Thrones? No. Because without Valjean to hate, he didn't...
When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?
When I was little, I used to pour salt on slugs. I liked watching them dissolve before my eyes. Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something’s getting hurt. It would be one thing to...
What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.
What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who h...
What if one of us dies? What happens then?'I reached around and turned on the light to see the clock: 3:20 A.M. 'I suppose we'd remarry.''Just like that!' Jane exploded. She sat up in bed, facing away...
What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these...
What do parents look like?You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way acros...