When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.
That's pretty good, for a young girlfrom Fever 1793
All of my answers were drawings of armored unicorns.
Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
Before the suffragettes came along, women were treated like dogs... They were dolls, with no thoughts, or opinions, or voices of their own. Then the suffragettes marched in, full of loud, in-your-face...
Can you kill a ghost by driving a knitting needle through her heart?
Does being forced to sit in time-out ever make little kids stop putting cats in the dishwasher or drawing on white walls with purple marker? Of course not. It teaches them to be sneaky and guarantees...
Eating plain toast will detonate her. I'll have some honey.When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch...
Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it.
Gloaming, Dad said. What? That word I couldn’t remember. Gloaming. That short, murky time between half-light and dark.
Gracie's father was an engineer, her mother an accountant. I couldn't picture either one of them yelling or throwing things or having affairs. I could see my dad doing stuff like that. Trish sure did....
Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.
He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Petrakis. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners.
His Excellency today appealed to the Officers of this Army to consider themselves as a band of brothers cemented by the justice of a common cause.-General Orders of George Washington, Valley Forge
How did she do all of these things?She was bold, brave, stubborn, and smart. And Sarah Hale had a secret weapon…When Sarah saw something she didn’t like, she picked up her pen and wrote about it. She...
I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.
I am an iceberg drifting toward the edge of the map.
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 or maybe a girl with gentle lips and strong han...
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