I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.