I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

It matters, like this: I belong to Malvern, you don't.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

You're the nicest boy ever,", I told him, feeling undeserving and terrible. "You didn't have to get me anything. I like thinking about you thinking about me when I'm not around.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.