You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monst...
What do I want?The answer to that question does not exist.
There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs.
The world turns upside down every day.
The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism
The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.
She’s packing at least five grand worth of orthodontia, but has great shoes.
She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.
She laid land mines in my skill that detonated weeks later.
S for silent, for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.
Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.
I’d given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I’d painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup...
It would have eased her mind if I thanked her for wanting to buy me away from Madam. I tried to be grateful but could not. A body does not like being bought and sold like a basket of eggs, even if the...
I sniff again and wipe my eyes on my arm. The bruises are vivid, but they will fade.
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
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...
How could filling in a bunch of blanks and writing a fluffy essay about the 'moment of significance' in my life let them know if I was good enough to go here?
He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.
Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!
Why don’t you want to see your mom? Did she burn yourdolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?She wants to run my life, I explain.What a bitch. It’s like she thinks she’s your motheror something....