At home, they’d clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn’t fall. Here, they bandaged one another’s broken wings, helped each other fly.

We’re all family–the only family we’ve got. It doesn’t have to be blood.

I started to sway Lexi again when I realized she was quiet. Waiting. Both of us paused on the cusp of the unknown. I couldn’t go backward or even retrace my own steps, let alone...

Ask no questions, I tell no lies.

I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a face like a mask. Envy was a treasure-hoarding dragon, dainty and...

If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?

Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him.Future. Hope.And love,...

Keep your eyes on the future, because that’s where the answers are. It’s where the hope is.

I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too.