All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, ha...
After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?
Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.
Add love, and a person might do something crazy. Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.
A mother has nine months to get used to sharing the space where her heart is; for a father it comes on sudden, like a storm that changes the landscape forever.
A lifetime of hurt in one act of vengeance.
A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.
A bruise is how the body remembers it’s been wronged.
Even though the injury has faded, I still see it the way it was right after the accident: raw and red, a jagged lightning bold splitting the symmetry of my face. In this, I suppose I'm like a girl wit...
Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What’s the point?
Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.
Ein Schatz wird erst dadurch zu einem Schatz, dass du ihn so schwer findest, wenn du ihn am dringendsten brauchst.
Do you remember the summer we signed you up for camp? And the night before you left, you said you've changed your mind and wanted to stay home? I told you to to get a seat on the left side of the bus,...
Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels.But.Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood.It hurt, though not as much as everything else...
Be history, instead of just watching it happen from the sidelines. Try something new, even if it scares you to death. Learn because you love to learn, not because you’re being tested. Don’t whine –...
As it turns out, you can love someone too much. Then, when they leave, your heart goes missing. And no on can survive that great a loss.
There are just some people you cannot find the good in. But who am I to decide if someone should be killed for murdering a child...instead of for murdering a drug addict during a deal that went bad......