She wants to hear all about our day, how long I’ve lived in town, and asks little sideways questions about my parents, so she can figure out if I’m the kind of friend she wants for her daughter. I don...
Quote from Ashes-pg. 39Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. The greatest strength of all is daring to love.
Weareheretogetagoodfoundation sowecangotocollegeliveuptoourpotentialgetagoodjoblivehap pilyeverafterandgotoDisneyWorld,
Mother is the rock, I am the ocean. I have to pout and roll my eyes for hours until she finally wears down and crumbles into a thousand grains of beach sand. It takes a lot of energy. I don't think I...
Maybe they're planning the next Project. They could mail snowballs to the weather-deprived children in Texas. They could knit goat-hair blankets for shorn sheep.
My bed is sending out serious nap rays.
Light up the stars in your brain, electrify your body, buckle on your smile, and everybody will love you again.
My job is to nod or shake my head, to say I know what you mean, when I don’t, and That is so unfair, when it isn’t.
Non riesco a fermarmi, ma non posso andare avanti.
I’m just tired and I can’t sleep yet. A woman’s work is never done, isn’t that what the fools say?
The false innocenceyou render for themby censoring truthprotects only you.
Underground, pale seeds roll over in their sleep. Starting to get restless. Starting to dream green.
Too much sleep is bad for your health, Matilda. She slipped a freshly made ball of butter into a stone crock. It must be such a grippe, a sleeping sickness.
I was the reason she didn't run away freshman year. I was the reason she didn't eat a bottle of sleeping pills when her boyfriend cheated on her. I listened for hours when her parents yelled and tried...
I wanted a coffin made of woodfrom trees not yet plantedmy appetite for time was growing.
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take...
I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The p...
Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned r...
I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep? I draw little windowcracks of blood, et...
The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.
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