I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about b...
You're not dead but you're not alive. You're a wintergirl.
To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.
The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.
Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.
I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.
I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here.
I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish, because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios.
I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish, because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.
Having a friend made everything else suck less.
Did he rape my head, too?
We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.
The world turns upside down every day.
The tears dissolve the last block of ice in my throat. I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shards of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor....
The bruises are vivid, but they will fade.
It isn't August. The moon is asleep and I'm sitting on my porch roof like a frozen gargoyle, wondering if the sun is going to blow off the world today and sleepin.
It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?