The love you needed was the kind best avoided.
The doctor’s voice was cold. There’s nothing to put back. There’s no body to go back to. The body of Lia Kahn is dead. Be grateful you didn’t die with it.
That was the strange thing about translation, speaking someone else's words in a voice that somehow was and wasn't your own. You could fool yourself into believing you understood the meaning behind th...
Since I was dead — or worse than dead, buried alive in a body that might as well be a coffin except it denied me the pleasure of suffocation — I figured I should be allowed to grieve.
They were kids. Kids don't care about totalitarianism. For my parents, Prague is picnics on Petrin Hill and homemade . It's home. They didn't notice the tanks in the backyard, the blood in the streets...
She was dressed for summer in Battle Creek, which meant straddling the narrow line between socially acceptable and buck naked, somehow making a strapped cotton shell and sweaty cutoffs look both girl-...
People do crazy things when they're keeping girls locked up in their shed.
Nobody likes me, he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest.Can’t imagine why, Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough,which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at...
I think you grow up different, by the water. You grow up knowing there’s a way out.