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We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

Let the Great World Spin

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Let the Great World Spin

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

Light Years

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

The Slippery Slope

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

The Slippery Slope

Are you saying that being a criminal is a matter of opinion?" I asked. Qwerty smiled, but it was sad around the edges. "No," he said. "It's a matter of handcuffs.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even whey they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.

Somewhere in Time

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

A tiger of a rather and a wolf of a brother. Sandwiched between the two, I wonder what my tomorrow holds.

Path of the Assassin, Vol. 3: Comparison of a Man

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animals Origins of Property and Nations

When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.

Trailerpark

We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together.

This is Where I Leave You