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.

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

This city is yawning before me, but I’m not tired.

In my early teens, I heard about Naked Lunch and its mutating typewriters and talking cockroaches. While I would hardly classify its dystopic vision as erotica now, at the time, Naked Lunch was my first...

Well that’s open to debate,’ he said. ‘It sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, and I hate the thought of you throwing yourself at guys just to try and get laid. Christ, I’d...

Get out of my house,” but instead, I came home one night to find all my clothes scattered all over our front lawn.

Why can’t a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff?

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

When you find the one, when you share the spark of kismet, then it becomes inconceivable to walk through life with anyone else.

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

Time’ is the most threatening four letter word.

The more I learn about life and people, the more I realise that everyone has a story and everyone’s story is the biggest in their own mind.” – Laylla Jonson

I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker...

Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn’t. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he’d turn around and kick and buck and...

I just want to this about that.

This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I’d be famous, rich, and thin.

By the second cycle of the solstice of the warm time, the One will face the enemy. And the One will unearth the Shield of the Northern Lights and smote the enemy with daring and...

You’ll understand someday, James.

He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.