Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.
Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.
It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.
Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.
As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.