Too many grown ups tell kids to follow their dreams, like that's going to get them somewhere. Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead. Because when you figure out what's eating you alive, yo...
There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is why not? I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.
The box opens and the razors slide out, whisper sweet.Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.
Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough.
Rumors are spread by jealous people
Rape wounds deeply, splits openyour core with shrapnel.The stench of the injury attracts maggotswhich hatch into clouds of doubt and self-loathingthe dirt you feel inside you nourishesanxiety, depress...
My good sense bitch slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.
Looking out the window, I wondered how many of those kids had parents who were losing it, or parents who were gone, taken off without a forwarding address, or parents who had buried themselves alive,...
Let me ask you something. We’re fighting for freedom, right? I picked my words carefully. So why is that man allowed to own Baumfree and Bett? Well, he said slowly, we’re fighting for our freedom. Not...
I’d given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I’d painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup...
It takes more to scare me now.
If that was life, then it was twisted.
I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.
I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.
I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out.
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...
How could men who liked cats be bad?
Cutting dead frogs is cool.
Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!
You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monst...