Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.

Kids are mostly very resilient.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.

My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.