We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.
I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone
Apparently, all you needed to be considered normal was no evidence to the contrary.
Like they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them.
I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
Threadbare, ravaged by love – as who amongst us is not.
The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.
He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.
Baby, high school's over. High school's never over..
Life is all arrivals and departures.
Instead I watched our mother obsessively for signs of breakage.
I want a normal girlfriend. Someone restful. You know anyone like that?
So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it...
An attack on SeaWorld might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.
The white culture rewarded cruelty with honor and friendship.
So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.
Jocelyn was dumbstruck. She couldn’t think of a single thingshe’d done that might give that impression. I don’t.
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.