—¿Cómo se inventa uno una religión? —preguntó Evie. Will la miró por encima de los cristales de sus gafas. —Dices 'Dios me ha dicho lo siguiente', y luego esperas a que la gente se apunte.
¿Es que en ese colegio tuyo no te enseñaron a abordar una investigación?- No. Pero sé recitar el «Himno de batalla de la República» mientras hago martinis.- Lloro por el futuro.
She was sure that all those things she'd been taught abut feeling shame were wrong. It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be.
I am beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and teachers and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; i...
We're never prepared for how much we love our children, for how much we wish we could protect them by being perfect.
A Evie le daba igual que le gritaran, pero odiaba sentirse juzgada. La irritaba, y hacía que se sintiera pequeña, fea y sin arreglo.
A hedgehog flies from the safety of a bush, startling me. It darts past us in a terrible hurry. Kartik nods toward the furry little thing. Don't mind him. He's off to meet his lady friend.How can you...
Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent, they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can feel.
And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pa...
And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.
And yet, you're still alone. All that trying and still you stand apart, watching from the other side of the glass. Afraid to have what you truly want because ? So much better to wrap yourself up in th...
As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the whole world, bodies flying high in defiance of gravity, as if they will nev...
Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.
Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.
Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.
Because you can't keep up the illusion forever, I say. No one has that much magic.
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the...
Beside her uncle’s picture was his resident permit, which all Chinese were required to carry. To be caught without it could mean prison time or deportation. Ling had been born right there in Chinatown...
Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you. So she lived in the moment, as if her life were one long party that never had to sto...
Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you.
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