If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.