Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me
Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.
Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.
Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.
I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.
They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.