Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the “blame” is on the individual.
The stars shine as they always do. Same stars. Same sky. Only I am different.
Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.
Anger requires energy, something I don’t dare waste on what cannot be altered.
With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let’s run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that’s the strength of books. Don’t worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.
I told her about the man, not my daddy, she said, He was only making you into a real girl. I didn’t understand. But I made myself believe her. I was a real girl now. But what was I before?
Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they’re not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books...
You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
Every high has an equal, measurable low.
Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us – female, male; Christian, Islamic; good, evil. All at the whim of a frail minority.
Was the fun in the fall?
As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.
I know I can’t stay here forever.
When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead.
Forever made that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender.