He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics.

As I watch Nicholas make his way back to his truck, I know one thing: this boy is going to make my life very interesting. I feel as if a fragment of the old me...

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

On est forcé d’être des enfants toute sa vie. C’est pour ça que ceux qui veulent devenir des hommes sont malheureux. Vous voulez chanter l’opéra? On rit de vous. Vous voulez vous conduire en monsieur...

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac–you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

It was almost painful to be different.

I’m lost, will you be my mother” type.

Here I am, if you don’t like it, don’t clap.” -Boys of the Fatherless-

Patience is the virtue that forges great men.

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she’d tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as...

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became...

Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to change the rules and I’ve had to start all over again.

Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.

When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on...

It’s great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can’t just sit...

Goodbye. Goodbye. I can’t feel you anymore. The night is almost too beautifully pure for my soul to contain. I walk with my arms spread open under the big fat moon. Heroic weeds rise up...

Look at me, Kia! Look me in the eye and tell me you’re not her.

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was.

There is a secret layer of humanity that lies just beneath the surface of man, a secret layer where our fears and insecurities hide, that when touched in this secret place men and woman are...

Well, most of us think “The Merchant of Venice” is a porno script. On a more personal note, I’ve decided on pizza for dinner.

The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that’s its nature.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.

These Aussie girls are free to set their own courses in the world, to meander and experiment. Their travels are not bumps along the road – they are life itself. See the world and then...

Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up...

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

It’s bewildering to me how you can just start chatting with a complete stranger on Facebook, and – next thing you know – it seems as if there’s some intense connection with the person –...

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

And scars will lighten, they’ll pale unless you keep rubbing at them…wait long enough, they’ll fade.

When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence.

We’re about to hit that age when we’ll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.

She leans over the desk to write and even though I feel bad for doing it, I watch her body as she does. Her shirt lifts just a little as she’s bending over and whether...

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

College isn’t half as much fun as they told us it was going to be.””It’s not one-hundredth as much fun.

He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality

Somewhere, a rattlesnake strike makes the dance begin. Three hawks float in the light blue sky overhead. Crows caw and the sweet seduction of lavender fills my head. And she waltzes through my thoughts.

I had come to the conclusion that everyone took sex far too seriously. I mean, it’s only sex.

On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading….From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits. The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was...

When I grow up, maybe I will bethe first one to circle the sea.Or maybe I will just spend all my daydoing everything my way.Maybe I will be in a world of my ownI just...

Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now…

It’s sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

Recalling his first dreams of flight when he was a small child, Max acknowledged that his entire existence had been building up to this tipping point where he could finally choose to release his self-imposedlimitations.

She didn’t want to be considered a woman yet, wasn’t ready to be the recipient of jewelry from men.

I guess that’s what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn’t. But it is all right.

Living with myself wasn’t all that easy. I was not the young girl I once was. Once upon a time when I looked in the mirror, I saw this happy glow. Now nothing glowed except...