Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.

What are you so sad about? We're going to know him for the rest of our lives.

I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away.

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

Women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that.

She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.