For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.
. . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.
I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.
We're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works-- groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless-- have been puree...
A bonfire billowed up. Some in the crowd tossed copies of Ladybird's book into the fire while a librarian pleaded with them not to do that and grabbed a fire extinguisher.**Really, being a librarian i...
A place to keep all your secrets
It's over, her mind whispered. There's still hope, her heart insisted.
What did I do to make Mommy leave?You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.Then why? she’d wailed.I don’t know, her daddy had said, and he looked so sad.It isn’t fair!No, it isn’t, baby. Not by a...
Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don't want to look like a troll, do you?
Here is the world before you. You have only to reach for it.
Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime! Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. Just as long as they know my name.
What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It’s such a bother that it must be masculine.
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
It was hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.
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.
There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!
The truth was, she was afraid that when she fell hard for a boy, she’d lose herself along the way. She’d seen it happen to lots of girls. They’d go from drinking gin, driving fast cars, and boldly shi...
What took you so long? Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of books, which they were tucking into Will’s attaché case. I walked to Jerusalem for the B...
You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?
Life is too short not to be who you are
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