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“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 sensitized, turned...”
“You only go through High School once, but if you go through the way we did, that's enough.”
“There exists an oasis where inspiration bursts forth like black gold from the fertile loam and every odd bellbird chirps a melody worth remembering. Theres no bloody map or nautical chart that can ...”
“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 so...”
“But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.”
“Ill be like Esther. Your daughter.You aint that strong.”
“What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?”
“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 arent encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.”
“You are meant to be, despite how you got here; youll see someday.”
“It's okay to be happy.”
“It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed.”
“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...”
“If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.”
“He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics.”
“I was a late bloomer. I was still nave about what 16 year olds today have known for years. I remember sitting up and taking noticeof the world, my body, othersin a way never before experienced. I n...”
“So youre the little smart ass from Poleglass.I wanted to point out he sounded like Dr. Seuss but bit my lip and remembered the warning the old lady gave me.”
“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)”
“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.”
“It's in a can. It's good forever.”
