Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But thatβs a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.
I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.
Sometimes you need to open yourself to the possibility of the miraculous, Tiger Tolliver. Sometimes you just do.
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.
Kingdoms Come and Go, but the Word Stays True. - Kailin Gow, Fearless Fairy Tales Series
She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girlsβ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.
Don't settle for being an option; become a priority.
No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben
If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He will allow me to share some part in this, I am truly humbled.
I feel a little like Wendy Darling. Peering out my window, hoping to be swept off by magic.
Ocean gusts slunk between the trees, who whispered to one another about The Great White Father being home; how everything was back to how it should be.
The house was quieter than usual, the sounds muffled and soft. It made her throat ache: The darkness, the kitchen, the single light. It felt like she was watching a movie of her life from an earlier era. Before Mom left, before all the trouble. Guilt twinged in Madiβs stomach. Before I took off and left Dad to deal with Sarah alone.
Aku telah berdamai dengan masa lalu. Apa pun yang menyedihkan sebelumnya, bukan menghancurkanku melainkan untuk membentuk diriku yang sekarang
In theory, solar storm activity could act like an EMP, damaging electronic equipment and causing power surges. And weβve just experienced the solar storm to end all solar storms.β, FADE by Kailin Gow
My parents thought that I had ADD when I was young,β I say, remembering. βI couldnβt concentrate well then. That just made me frustrated. Angry. It was only when I started runningβ¦ running helped me to deal with it.β, Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow
People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.
I have cystic acne, and sometimes when I have a breakout, it triggers me back to that time when I was a teen and I feel so self-conscious - like the whole world is looking at my bad skin. I've definitely not gone out of the house because of a breakout, which is horrible.
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.