I look through the old record collection my dad gave me. Stress relief. I shuffle through the albums feverishly and find what I'm looking for-the Proclaimers. I chuck it on and watch it spin. The ridi...
I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but no...
Summer came.For the book thief, everything was going nicely.For me, the sky was the color of Jews.When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. When their fingerna...
There are just people going about what they always do.Talking. Parking crooked.
Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.
What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- LieselSo am I.'- Rudy
The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner.The truth, however, is painful.It was a truth that told me with a sc...
For a long time, she sat and saw.She had seen her brother die with one eye open, on still in a dream. She had said goodbye to her mother and imagined her lonely wait for a train back home to oblivion....
The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.
Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even...
The flyscreen door is torn at the edges. Fraying. I open it and knock on the wood. The sound rhymes with my heartbeat.
The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered Shhh, I’m here, its alright. After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated...
He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.
And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through me. I could feel it on its hands and knees inside me, rising up, rising up - and I smiled.I smiled, t...
All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss.
The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...
She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.
He was into the skating culture now and I was into, well, I'm not sure what I was into. I was into roaming around on my own, and I enjoyed it.
So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they...