You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.