Quotes of: My-number-one Keyword

Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

Ready Player One

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

There was not an inch of solid ground anywhere in the world for me to call my own. I didn't belong anywhere. Had I disappeared, no one would have noticed.

Shattered Illusions

No one could possibly understand my purest feelings but I couldn't care less; My deepest yearnings are nobody's goddamn business anyway

Missin' (Novel)

How could I have missed the opportunity to pop pills with my sister who was purer than a Quaker?

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.

Matched

...because my life without you would be a place of parched and broken trees...

New and Selected Poems, Volume One

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

One Day

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiograpy of Nelson Mandela with Connections

You fill my soul with hope and love. Together, we will remain through the heavens above. One soul, together. For always and forever…

Lady's Destiny

And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons....

My Childhood

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

My gaze lands on the digital clock on my nightstand as it flicks to 12:01 AM. Hours spent in Orane’s world, and one minute has passed in mine.

Sing Sweet Nightingale

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

One for the Money

Living for the satisfaction of only one part of my body (my mouth) [is] unholy.

Overcoming Overeating: It's Not What You Eat, It's What's Eating You!

I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars.

Penny Dreadful

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

Persuasion

The ocean in the sky keeps my love fresh like boat shoes that are too big to fail. My heart is flooded with feelings like Noah one knows.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

At the end of the first date, I got my courage up and I made a move. One U-Haul van and 1,500 miles later, I regretted my boldness.

This Book is Not FOR SALE