My cholera's acting up again.
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens ou...
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
But we can't go back. We can only go forward.
You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.
When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.
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.
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...
The key holds the truth
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don't want to look like a troll, do you?
Murder was just another reason to drink
I salute your spunk, but I question your sanity, Sam said.
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...
I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.
You look very handsome, Papa, I say.The twinkle is back in his eyes. Smoke and mirrors, he says with a wink. Smoke and mirrors.
Will you punish me forever?
They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?
Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.
She is the elephant’s eyebrows,