Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.