They basked in the sweet-scented breeze, and felt the sunshine warming their bare heads. Petals drifted from the gnarled apple and cherry trees, creating a pretty storm, like confetti. They lay togeth...
They’d take Nina’s hair tonight, leaving only enough to cover her scalp—the k.d. lang look, Jezebel explained. Paige would weave the hair, strand by strand, into a wig modeled after Nina’s natural loo...
Things happen as they are meant to happen. There is no grand plan, just flawed human beings bumbling through life.
This is the first real food I've had since the patisserie trolley at the Bordeaux airport, Shannon said. She took a bite, and an expression of rapture came over her face. They'll probably close the bo...
This was the House that Jack Built, she thought, hearing the singsong rhythm of the old children’s story in her head. And this was the wife who lived in the house that Jack built. And there was the mi...
Think about kissing boys all the time. Me and all my friends. We even practice making out with our pillows.
Time and circumstances could batter away at it, like waves on a rocky shore, but for some people, love never died.
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...
Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.
Wake up & Smell The Hot Chocolate ! ~ Eddie Havens
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...
We don’t realize how wonderful today is until tomorrow. —Amish proverb
We often destroy the world’s real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.
You’re afraid, he said, the amazement of sudden revelation lighting his face. I never thought I’d find the one thing you fear. I’m not afraid, she said. You’ve never been kissed before, have you? She...
What I’ve found is that you make time for the things that matter to you. Everyone has the time. It’s just a question of deciding what to do with that time.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? —E. M. Forster
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic
What we remember from childhood we remember forever—permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. —CYNTHIA OZICK, AMERICAN WRITER, B. 1928
When she was little and a bad dream woke her, Gran would advise her to change the channel by turning her pillow over. It worked every time.
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