It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
It was sent parcel post two weeks ago from Miss Felicity Worthington and addressed to Mrs. Rao, Mrs. Gemma Doyle Rao.
It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be.
It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear.You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I...
Is this all you want? Sam asked bitterly. A good time?You’re one to talk!I like a good time. But not all the time.
In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of...
In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In those waters, all disappointments are fo...
If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.
I've been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on the island....Lord of the Flies what about it....You know how you said it wasn't a true measure of humanity since there were no girls and...
I'm a librarian, not an oracle.
I mean that she was complicated. Everybody is, Ling said quietly. Don’t erase her like that. She deserves better.
I love you for who you are, not for who the world thinks you should be.
I like the way Georgia looks, so different from Texas. All those tall pine trees and that rich, red dirt, like the ground bled and scabbed over, like it’s got a history you can read in the very clay.
I know because I read.
I knew it. You’re an alien, said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. Yes, I’m an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I’m going to steal your...
I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.
I found her. There was blood everywhere. I slipped and fell in it.''That's awful,' Ling said when she found her voice again.'It was awful. I loved those pants.
I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.You are officially the most annoying unreal creature ev...
I can't help feeling humiliated for Ithal. He stands at the wall and watches us go, and when we reach the turnoff for the school, he's still there with the mangled flower in his hands, far behind us a...
I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mot...