Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

...You deserve to be happy. What can I do?" Don't send me away, I thought. He looked at me again. "What do you want?" "I want to taste an apple," I said. And your lips, I thought.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

To desperately hope," I whispered James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe.

i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.

i felt my being flutter. each tousled head that came through the door i wanted to be his, but no and on, a dozen boys entered, yet not the one.

I would do anything to stay beside you forever.