The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.
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...
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.
CONJUGATE THIS: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.
Why? You want to know why?Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glas...
I nod like I’m listening,like we’re communicating, and she never knows the difference.
Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead?
She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. You're lost! You're angry! You're in the wrong school! You're in the wrong country! You're on th...
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.
Our inhumane neighbors, instead of sympathizing with us tauntingly proclaim the healthfulness if their won cities…
It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.
The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student...
I used to dream about bringing a knife to therapy and slicing her into pork chop-sized pieces.
We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.
Too many grown ups tell kids to follow their dreams, like that's going to get them somewhere. Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead. Because when you figure out what's eating you alive, yo...
I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.
Yesterday's dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I am shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong.
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...
To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.
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