Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.
The Voice of TomorrowAmerica, America, will you listen to the story of you?You bruised mountains, purpled by majesty.You shining seas that refuse to see.You, haunted by ghosts of dreams,From the many,...
The steam trains crossed the country, the gleaming tracks clumsy sutures across wounded miles of stolen land.
One day, as Sarita tended to the wash, Gemma played in the garden. She was a knight, you see, with a sword fashioned out of wood. Most formidable, she was, though I didn't quite know how formidable. A...
Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.
This is how it is now. There is strength in acceptance, Ling. Your legs have been taken from you. But how you choose to live with that has not.
So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.
Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.
America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues made it the envy of the world. Sometimes it betrayed the very heart of its ideals. Sometimes the peop...
People want to be safe, not free.
Today is a hard day. Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope.
Every city is a ghost.New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting....
Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield i...
But why not take pride in this country? It's the envy of the world. A place where any man can realize his dream. We, the dreamers, built this nation.The Indians and slaves might disagree, Jericho shot...
Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, ‘Are you on the rag of something?’ And it’s like...
I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven'...
I change the world, the world changes me.
There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!
At first, I was scared to be alone. No routines. No rules. Just me. But I think... Taylor wiped a tear away. I think I was always in the jungle. Before. It was always there. I think I had to come out...
Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
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