The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth.

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

I’ve come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it’s inevitable. Fight for it.

And the One will reveal the Bow of the Southern Star and conquer the enemy with courage and fine judgment. The sight of the One is true and the enemy cannot hide. Griffon will fly

She had a woman’s swagger at twelve-and-a-half. Hair: strawberry-blonde, and I vaguely recall a daisy in the crook of her ear. She was an inch taller than me, two with the ponytail; smooth cheeks and...

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn’t mean I always will be.Like AJ repeating words, I...

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d...

You ain’t that strong.

The last declaration he’d made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.

I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed, even though there were inevitable adjustments to the...

To be honest, I’ve always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad’s Super 8 camera. In my mind, it’s all one big continuum of filmmaking and I’ve...

when we grow up”. Some are already at that stage early on, some are not. We learn the ways of the world all in good time, but being vulnerable is to be human. We never...

Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true,...

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it’s too late to save her. “I’ve noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear.” She’s been...

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

We screamed this primeval scream built on a base of freedom, raised from beauty of a dying breed, and threw our heads back to laugh or cry, I’m not entirely sure which. But the scream...

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we...

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them...

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame…

Time collapsed into a delicate dark pencil brushed against oureyebrows, the emergent rumble of crowds gathering above our heads. Weslid into our costumes. Pirate, outlaw, futuristic rebels. Red,purple, gold. Chains hanging from our belts, tight...

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

Boys always make things more complicated.

Probably not, but we can pretend.

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

You only go through High School once, but if you go through the way we did, that’s enough.

There’s something to say about inspiration – when it comes into your life…the feeling is insatiable.

And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce

in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.

It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed.

But like all moments trapped in time, that moment would end and Joey Boldt, as all the greats before him did, would begin to understand that clinging too tightly to anything results in Time and...

I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever...

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.

The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.

I’d wrestled against the inner voice of my mother, the voice of caution, of duty, of fear of the unknown, the voice that said the world was dangerous and safety was always the first measure...

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

But I can’t manage to grow up and change shape. I’m still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that everyone pretends to be unaware of, perhaps because I know that...

I’m looking to make a miracle

Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.

The music is happy; the laughter is happy. Everything feels ecstatic and desperate. Blurrily, I think of sex, and I think of death. I realize: Every moment of joyous celebration contains the seed of death.

I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…

But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.