I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also people that can make me smile.

You’re perfectly safe. Emily is here to protect your virtue.” “That’s too bad.

Veni, vidi, flevi.I came. I saw. I cried.

I’m too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

This song Emily by Joanna Newsom attaches my body to my soul which sails out and around me desperately trying to escape all the time. I still don’t understand it’s original meaning.

It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would...

An Alabama-faced man with a Georgia body once told me I had the smile of an Emily. That made me grin, which is definitely not how an Emily would react, so I knew it couldn’t...

I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck

seized with a violent trembling,” as he later told his grandson. Both electrified and terrified by the discovery, he hid the book in his lunch bucket until the workday ended and then took it home....

He caught her bythe shoulders and gave her a hard little shake. “Do you think you’re so charming in that silly little nightdress that I can’t resist tumbling you? Do you think I have no...

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

No, scratch the word “career.” Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

You see, we were able to give you something, something which even now no one will ever take from you, and we were able to do that principally by sheltering you. Hailsham would not have...

You see,” she concluded miserably, “when I can call like that to him across space–I belong to him. He doesn’t love me–he never will–but I belong to him.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

demon”. And who really wants demons around?