My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.
Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!
Maybe that was why I wanted to slap so many of the zombies; they had no idea how freaking lucky they were. Lucky and ignorant, happy little rich kids who believed in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy an...
Life was a battle, and Mother a tired and bitter captain
LIBERTY IS EQUALLY AS PRECIOUS TO A BLACK MAN, AS IT IS TO A WHITE ONE, AND BONDAGE EQUALLY AS INTOLERABLE TO THE ONE AS IT IS TO THE OTHER . . . . AN AFRICAN, OR A NEGRO MAY JUSTLY CHALLENGE, AND HAS...
I’ve got a cake rising, Eliza said. I’m not leaving that for any man
It was the most eloquent silence I ever heard.
It takes more to scare me now.
It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.
It is easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have...
In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sport cars on their sixteenth birthdays, Teachers smile at them and grade them on the curve....
I'm not wearing this! I shouted.Wear it or die, Mom shouted back.
I'm fighting the shock of having a guest in my room. I almost kick her out because it's going to hurt too much when my room is empty again.
I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation.
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page
I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This c...
I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped.
I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.