We lived in the attic,Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me,Now there are only three.
There’s a garden in the sky, waiting there for me. It’s a garden that Chris and I imagined years ago, while we lay on a hard black slate roof and stared up at the sun and the stars.He’s up there, whis...
I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.Once I was in that cold dim room, without furniture or carpet or rugs,...
I had a gift too; not the bright and shining coin that was Christopher's. It was my way to turn over all that glittered and look for the tarnish.
Behind that I would shield myself, and I’d tell him to go away.Don’t, he said when I had the dress in my hands.
Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.
Probably be—
Stature comes from your demeanor, your self confidence.
Pero las ilusiones son como las telarañas, que son muy fáciles de deshacer, y en seguida volvía a la realidad. ¿Y dónde estaba la felicidad? ¿En los ayeres? ¿En los mañanas? No, ciertamente en esta ho...
Maybe there was something wrong with me, but unlike my friends, I wasn't eager to rush into adulthood and get away from everything that tied me to my life as it was now.
Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.
It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do afte...
In the dark, the little live Christmas tree, two feet tall, sparkled with tiny coloured lights, like the tears I saw glistening in my brother's eyes.
I knew then he was blind when he looked at me.
But daydreams were merely cobwebs, easily torn into shreds, and I’d quickly be dropped back into reality.
Someday I’m going to dance in the arms of a husband who loves me, and if he really wants a baby, then I might agree to have one.
And still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward.
You really think I’m pretty enough for a man to love?You’re more than pretty enough. He sounded embarrassed.Chris, remember when Momma told us that it was money that made the world go around and not l...
We’ll make it work, because two people who are sincerely in love can always overcome obstacles no matter what they are.
Too much money buys everything but health, so they have no dreams left to purchase, and no aspirations, so in the end they are only bored.