I think we're the only ones in the building, he says.Then no one will mind when I do this! I jump onto the desk and parade back and forth. St. Clair belts out a song, and I shimmy to the sound of his...
I stay in bed for as long as possible, but eventually my bladder wins. When I come back from the bathroom, he's looking out my window. He turns around and laughs. Your hair. It's sticking up in all di...
I love it when he cocks an eyebrow whenever I say something he finds clever or amusing. I love listening to his boots clomp across my bedroom ceiling. I love that the accent over his first name is cal...
Dad steps away from the window, and I'm alarmed to discover his eyes are wet. Something about the idea of my father-even if it is -on the brink of tears raises a lump in my throat. Well,kiddo.Guess yo...
But you’ll want me someday? That feeling you once had for me . . . that hasn’t left either? Our hearts beat the same wild rhythm. They’re playing the same song. It never left, I say.
And if I'm the stars, Cricket Bell is entire galaxies.
And for the first time since coming home, i'm completely happy. It's strange. Home... to be here, in my technical house, and discover now someplace different... Is it possible for home to be a person...
Home isn't a place. It's a person.
But we stayed together because... I don't know why. Maybe because we thought we should be in love. At least I did. I wanted to be in love.
¿Desde cuándo es razonable el comportamiento humano?
You say that I'm afraid of being alone, and it's true. I am. And I'm not proud of it. But you need to take a good look at yourself, Anna, because I am the only one in this room who suffers this probl...
Is that...the theme?Mer and St. Clair cock their ears.Why,yes.I believe it is, St. Clair says.I heard 'Love Shack' a few minutes ago, Mer says.It's official, I say. America has finally ruined France....
I'm going to be sick. I'm going to vomit that weird eggplant tapenade I had for dinner, and everyone will hear, and no one will invite me to watch the mimes escape from their invisible boxes, or whate...
Here is everything I know about France: Madeline and Amelie and Moulin Rouge. The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, although I have no idea what the function of either actually is. Napoleon, Marie...
Beautiful. He called me beautiful! But wait. I don't like Dave. Do I like Dave?
And for the first time since coming home, I'm completely happy. It's strange. Home. How I could wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical HOUSE, and disc...
I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.