Growing up changes morethan playground gamesand body shapes.

One more year and I will be closer to wherever I'm going.

I'm all alone, fuming at myself, waving a great flagof failure.

Stella scribbledin thick black textaacross half the pagesof my best storybook, filled with people who venturedwhere their hearts took them.Beautiful worlds beyond mine.

The true test is wonwhen being togetherwithout saying a wordis everything.

There're three reasonspeople get away from here:gone good, gone bad orgone dead.

I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.

Then she smiles, like it'sthe first time she's seen sunafter a decade of winters.

I want out of this place.With no reminders."It stings -sulphur tearsin cinnamon rain.

Instead, she's as stillas a leaf-littered pond, dark water evaporating, waiting desperately for rain.

i miss my brother likethe sea would miss saltif that were taken away.

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Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

Pics or it didn't happen." "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.

The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.