Hasta la vista, bitch.
No, I call. Come back.I'm here, he says.But I can't see. It's too bright.You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.
People are… Mabel wheezed. Mostly good, you… Wheeze. Know? Mostly. She tried to take a breath. It was hard. Like breathing through layers of gauze. Where were her parents? She loved them so. Mostly. I...
Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of hones...
I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took...
Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia,
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage, for that matter.
The mural, there were painted lines for the Underground, like scars stretched across the skin of the infected nation. There were wounds and then there were wounds.
They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.
I changed the world; the world changed me.Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.
A place to keep all your secrets
There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another...
I don’t want to have this conversation. It’s sunny out. There’s bacon downstairs. My life is starting over today. I’ve just made it official.
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment? Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
We’ll have to make the chumps believe it. Moonlight strolls. Staring into each other’s eyes. Sharing the same straw in our egg cream. Dreadful pet names.Not Lamb Chop, Evie protested. That’s hideous.Y...
The wind has shifted to the East. A storm isn't far off. I can smell the moisture in the air, a fetid, living thing. Isolated drops fall, licking at my hands, my face, my dress. The quests squawk in s...
People will disappoint you, Gemma. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on.
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