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Educationexpand_moreOnly one constant existed: I wrote. Writing was my center of gravity.
Mentors can suggest to you what more you are capable of.
Before April rings the chime, she forces her way up out of herself.
Stable-keeper’s kids know broken then healed, but healed with limits.
Fletcher was a squad leader. He ought to be able to get a girl.
If you tear down the web it will simply know this isn’t a place to call home.
I am going to relate to you the most lamentable love affair of my life.
Of all she taught me I like best the lore of spray-on cologne.
Salve, salve, Regina. As the song ends, he folds into the fabric seat.
Most people come to Africa because they are drawn to its misery.
How bright and eager they appear, how ready to get started.
Heaven preserve me from the Epidemic of a Proud Ignorance!
The horse is in the air, her legs withdrawn, a diamond shape.
I believe you get to see a sunset once. Death, well, I’ve lost count.
My wife had time to form a thought: I have killed my daughter.
“What would Toby do?” is a question that often appears in my mind.
Cruelty is cruelty and you don’t ask why, you just hit first and hit hard.
He would sneak into my room, we would have sex, he would sneak out.
Though I’ve never killed anything myself, I’ve been complicit.
He looked a look of vicious happiness and eagerly pried the watch open.
It helped me free myself from a longtime source of unhappiness.
In real life, my favorite character, so to speak, is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
I like to think of love as something that one should keep feeding, like a fire.
I once heard in a sermon, “Choose the important over the urgent.”
Dr. Seuss taught me something about the way words can be used.
This is kind of a big, wet valentine, isn’t it? Shouldn’t you throw it out?
In narrative terms, sex is the propeller that moves the story along.
There’s something to stepping right out of your dreams and onto the page.
What’s the most useful criticism you’ve received? “Keep writing.”
I know now not to measure my insides against others’ outsides.
