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I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.

The true Lesson of the Master is, simply, to husband one’s own stupidity.

Kids interfere with perfection. Wives interfere. Marriage interferes.

The letter both pleased and disturbed her. Why did he get in touch?

He cannot imagine the shape his life would take without her.

It was on a mid-June morning that the stranger first called.

The eyes looked into his own with a meaning, a malign significance.

I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.

I am eleven years old and too young to die, but I am dying nonetheless.

How shocking it was to discover these real things were not real.

We want to revisit what life was like before technology infected us.

Hannah Sarvasy

Jane’s made it clear, this Renuka might not even become a doctor.

Your mother still glows with a smoothness that you envy.

To fulminate, to go on a tear, because what’s wanted is forbidden.

Our visions of the world fade like the morning star, lost in the light of day.

I can’t hold a face held before dawn & not see behind the eyes bullets.

He only told the world what the world wanted to hear from a guy who graduated from Harvard.

No fountains to quench the thirst between rounds of tag.

Part of me wished I’d never tried heroin. The rest wanted to be high.

She is eight years old and doesn’t recognize the word divorce.

I saw it on her face that day, a look like her heart would drift into the sky.

I look on Britain as a new world, which it is almost madness to invade.

I lost myself in their minds: for the moment I actually became them.

I thought fleetingly he might give it to me, as he knew I wanted it.

Stop her there, on the bank of knowingness, just before spring.

Years they sought her, whose crew left on the water a sad Welsh hymn.

She had a situation where she’d lost her driver’s license for speeding.

We chose to stay in the brutality of that night, even as the girls walked away.