She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

There are a lot of things in the world that are a lot weirder than psychic abilities, that we accept as true.

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.