Walking again. But being inconspicuous on
Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.
Everyone had pain. But not everyone had to stay hidden behind it.
You’re bleeding, he said. A thorn prick, no more, she stated. I didn’t know fairy creatures could bleed. I always fancied them spun of mist and moonlight, not flesh and blood. Let go. No, my love— I’m...
Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.
Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip, Bubbie used to say. Feed your enemies, and they’ll become your friends.
To Sonnet, wearing castoff clothing was just another way to make her different from the other kids at school. As if she needed one more thing to make her different.
Torta Crema (Italian Cream Cake) 1 stick unsalted butter, softened 1/ 2 cup shortening 2 cups sugar 5 eggs, separated 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup flaked coco...
When your pain is bad, and your strength is gone, you might start thinking of leaving. Leaving. I like that.
She was a digital geek. He’d always considered himself pretty good at multitasking, but she truly had a gift. At any given moment, she could juggle up to three devices. She might be tweeting on her iP...
You can either kill me. Or marry me, he said. His suggestion slammed into her with the force of a blow. She reeled back. No! He bent and began fishing nails out of the bucket. No to what? To both choi...
The one who was lost. It was as if someone had pulled a dark hood over her face, spun her around until she was dizzy, then thrust her forward, to grope her way blindly through life, praying she would...
Thank you for all the Acts of Light which beautified a summer now passed to its reward. —letter from Emily Dickinson to Mrs. John Howard Sweetser
But in a town full of nobodys, she’s practically somebody.
The cut was only the beginning. With Goldi acting as art director, a couple of girls in pink smocks swooped in and painstakingly separated strands of his hair and painted them with a noxious substance...
Life as it reveals itself is filled with riches. What will happen, will happen. Worrying will not affect the outcome.
Love isn’t always all perfume and magic. It has a physical side, one that has nothing to do with tender feelings, fluttering hearts, sentimental poetry.
The moments of life are ephemeral and unpredictable. We must capture the best ones and keep them safe in our hearts.
Oh, aye. A bit of mist in the air might bring the selkies out to play. The selkies are seal people, you know.
Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?I was a good husband to your mother, Pop said. I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first ma...
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