Free the snow globes!
It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me...
How do you invent a religion? Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.
Nobody wants to be themselves. That's why there's TV. So you know what to want and who to be.
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
I love myself. They make it so hard for us to love ourselves.
Marlowe grinned. That so? I couldn’t disagree more. Is that Nietzsche talking? Ah, the Germans. We have a factory in Germany, you know. Actually, Germany is a fine example, so let’s take Germany: They...
I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.
The world is full of dead optimists.
Go on, darling, she said, batting her lashes. Tell them the rest. Riiiight, Sam said, suppressing a smirk.
And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to...
Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.
As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a ho...
Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.
Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime! Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. Just as long as they know my name.
There's no time to be modest. Reason will not work here. Without warning, I kiss Kartik. His lips, pressed firmly against mine, are a surprise. They are warm, light as breath, firm as the give of a pe...
It's over, her mind whispered. There's still hope, her heart insisted.
Here is the world before you. You have only to reach for it.
Everything is randomly connected.
Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over,
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