You look very handsome, Papa, I say.The twinkle is back in his eyes. Smoke and mirrors, he says with a wink. Smoke and mirrors.
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is sur...
I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With boo...
People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.
For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.
You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.
You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes.- Jennifer, Beauty Queens
There is no meaning but what we assign. We create our own reality. I can live with that.
We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.
There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would like to give a few thoughts on what seemed to be the overwhelming question: WHY?And here is the best a...
Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more...
You evah hear of a magic screw?'I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.
I don’t care. If I like somebody, I like her, and that’s that. He thumped his chest and made a scowly face. Let ‘em come for me. I will stare down the mob with their pitchforks! I will make a speech a...
What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?
Here is the world before you. You have only to reach for it.
The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air....
I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony.
I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.
People will believe anything if it means they can go on living their lives and not have to think too hard about it.
Why does it always seem that I have only the shadow of my father? I'm like a child constantly grabbing at his coattails and missing.
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