Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

Sea does the sweep of his eyes that he does, the one that goes from my head to my toes and back again and makes me feel that he's scanning the depths of my soul and teasing out my motivations and sins. It's worse than confession with Father Mooneyham. At the end of it, he says, "If you help, this will go faster.

As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed

Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands

She leaned toward me, offering her neck, and I kissed her just behind her ear.