Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.
Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.
It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.
I'm just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold.
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
You’re not like other girls, you know that, right?’ Ed asks. ‘I’ve been aware of the problem,’ I tell him.
Someone else's idea of happiness was a lot easier to attain than a happiness I could not envision and didn't think I deserved.
As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to get the urge to go back to class.
I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real.
I want to get some sleep, so if there's something mind-numbingly disturbing you want to show me, can we just get it over with?
Slowly, I'm beginning to realise that what happened to me wasn't my fault, that I was taken advantage of by a group of vile, twisted men.
If you took everything I’d ever found hot in a girl and piled them into a corner, you’d get Cricket Hunt standing in a corner.
It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.
We discover the depths of our humanity when we let go of reality and enter the realm of the senses.
We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was
There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.
I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly
I totally bought you as a girl," says Marisol. "I'll double check with Frances later, but by the sounds of things, you seem to have no balls.
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
