“Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under societys so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know Im not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the ...”

“Just make sure the day doesnt pass without sayin whats in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and theyre gone forever.”

“As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.”

“Its a funny thing, one day youre living and the next day youre not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I dont even know if I would want ...”

“The world bein so small aint always a good thing for those of us who aint searchin for new and different stuff.”

“One of the worst things Ive learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you dont like than there was when you were younger and you cant do nothin about it.”

“One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you dont. And it feels like ...”

“My father gave me a ruined boy to compensate for the fact that he does not love me. The boy is fragile, brokenbroke himselfbroke everything.I asked him why he did it. He said because the world was ...”

“My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time,...”

“I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.”

“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts ha...”

“Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous s...”

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

“Its bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys games and work and manners!”

“Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”