She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.
Memphis's eyes fluttered open. Theta's eyes were wide, and she was crying. 'Did I hurt you?'She laughed through tears. 'You could never hurt me.
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settle...
You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow.
Life is too short not to be who you are
Our days are numbered in the book of days, Most High, Gorgon murmurs as the garden comes once more into view. That is what gives them sweetness and purpose.
The only thing I’m trying to steal is your heart, doll. Sam smirked. You’re not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.
This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.
With no plan of escape in sight, I've been resigned to the life of a cosseted young lady of London society as Grandmama and I pay calls. We drink tea that is too weak and never hot enough for my likin...
The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplaced their combs, and yet you were supposed to fall at their feet? Un...
I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.
Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
Nobody wants to be themselves. That's why there's TV. So you know what to want and who to be.
For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams.
I love myself. They make it so hard for us to love ourselves.
It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me...
Marlowe grinned. That so? I couldn’t disagree more. Is that Nietzsche talking? Ah, the Germans. We have a factory in Germany, you know. Actually, Germany is a fine example, so let’s take Germany: They...
Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
How do you invent a religion? Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.
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