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Writer · American
American writer
“I like the way men cry. They're efficient.”
“For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.”
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”
“Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.”
“What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!”
“I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, He doesnt love you. I love you.”
“That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
“You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.”
“I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.”
“A sea of red lights, and I slow down. My job now is to gather everyone together and tell them we have to let her go. I won't tell anyone over the phone, because I didn't like hearing the news from ...”
“I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to hel...”
“I picture Cully tromping through that high, deep snow. That's how I feel physically from all of this. Moving through grief like it's a thick drift, exhausting but enlivening. It makes your muscles ...”
“We continue to eat, the conversation easy and flowing. I listen to everything everyone says, an urgency to pay attention, to not miss these moments you don't know are moments until they're gone. I ...”
“I tell Esther she should ease up on lard. There's no need to mix lard in with Scottie's rice, chicken, and beans. I tell her she hasn't read the blogs. I've read the blogs. I know what Scottie shou...”
“My God, she says. I feel like Ive gone through a car wash.I laugh, or force myself to, because its not something Id normally laugh at.What about you? she says to Scottie. How did you make out?Im a ...”
“Do you guys have sunscreen? I ask.No, Scottie says. Do we have water?Did you bring any? Alex asks.No, I say.Alex pops her head up. Did you bring snacks for us?We can walk to town.How do mothers man...”
“I had to ask Scottie what TYVM meant, because now that Ive narrowed into her activities, I notice she is constantly text-messaging her friends, or at least I hope its her friends and not some perv ...”
“I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.”
“I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.”
“We walk until there aren't more houses, all the way to the part of the beach where the current makes the waves come in then rush back out so that the two waves clash, water casting up like a geyser...”
“Say goodbye to your mom.Scottie pauses, then keeps going.Scottie.Bye! she yells.I grab her arm. I could yell at her for wanting to leave, but I dont. She pulls her arm out of my grasp. I look up to...”
“I drift off for a while. I don't know how long, but when I open my eyes, the Oscars are still on and Alex tells me that Sid has gone and this makes me a little sad. Whatever the four of us had is o...”
