Dead bodies are such trouble, Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.
Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir.
Choices. That's what made a man. Wasn't it?
But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice.
Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you.
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...
Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.
Because you can't keep up the illusion forever, I say. No one has that much magic.
Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.
Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.
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 if I talk too loud, its just that I'm trying to be heard.
Adina sat up. It’s denigrating and objectifying. No. It’s eye shadow and lipstick and sex and mystery and magic and transformation and fun. And nobody’s taking that away from me. You will pry my Petal...
A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.
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.
Inside everyone was the chance to change the world. It sat like a seed eager to grow into greatness.
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
Will looked at Evie funny. Advertising?Yes. You've heard of it, haven't you? Swell modern invention. It lets people know about something they need. Soap, lipstick, radios—or your museum, for instance....
When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurolo...
When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everyt...