Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.

...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.