The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now.

I left Hairball to his manic mantric singing. I walked toward the house and stopped to rub some white pine needles on my fingers. The evergreen smelled fresh and alive. The needles were long and...

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn’t imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

I love you when you’re happy. I love you when you’re sad. I love you if you’re angry,And I love you if you’re bad. No matter how you feel, I love you all the time.Oh...

Bittersweet: it’s what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S’mores.

She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take.

You people who have survived childhood don’t remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be...

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

It’s not easy to be God.

Belonging to a place isn’t nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.

I’m not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I’m old, perhaps.

I didn’t want to get burned. I didn’t want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.

Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking.

Hush now, ‘tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.

In the end, every person’s life is a tough act to follow.

Where should I go?” -Alice. “That depends on where you want to end up.” – The Cheshire Cat.

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

It’s okay to be happy.

You’ll get fired if anyone finds out about us!””So many rules in this century,” Vane muttered.

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone’s family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.” – Zane, page 400

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers’ laps. (The Pinata-Maker’s Daughter)

Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackheads bled and...

It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. ‘Oh,’ Izzie said, ‘You’re at an age when a girl is simply consumed by the sublime.’ Ursula wasn’t sure what she...

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches and talk, but their conversations aren’t sprinkled with laughter anymore. Since the new,...