What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.
Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from...
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers probing parts you never though you could probably probe - Gray
But now, like a fallen sparrowOn a golden chain,I'm forever bound in shadow,A prisoner to my pain.
Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from...
Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.
Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.
وقتی که بیرون از زندان هستی تصور مردن زندانی ها را هم نمی کنی. فقط فکر می کنی آن ها حبس شان را می کشند و بعد هم آزاد می شوند. ولی خیلی ها آن تو تلف می شوند. بعضی وقت ها به دست خودشان و بعضی وقت ها هم...
You're not getting in anything, so between us it's going to be outcest, and that's just another word for friendship. —Jocelyn Lawson
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning. The movie is in black and white, and grainy.
Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?
Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.
In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.
Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.
Each of us is born with a history already in place
And what I was feeling was the wonderOf being more than me, of being moreThan mere here and now allowedI had become a shining star, a burning novaExploded with loveFlying through an endlesslyExpanding...
That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.