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.
I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It...
I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me...
I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain...
I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a...
I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown.
I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here.
Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not...
I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.
You're not dead but you're not alive. You're a wintergirl.
Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead?
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
Well... It might be a little broken.''A little broken is still broken,' I pointed out.'But fixable.
This note about anatomyfrom me to youis for the remembering thatafter you speakafter you shoutyour open mouthwill breathe in the lightfor which you've hungeredand your backbone will unfurl,until you c...
She got too tired and went to sleep. Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help.
Our inhumane neighbors, instead of sympathizing with us tauntingly proclaim the healthfulness if their won cities…
It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I wou...
I'm learning how to taste everything.