His chair glides a few inches closer and he's in my face, all shoulders and cologne.

Darkness doesn't have fingers that twist into my flesh.

A small metal marble pinballs within my chest, banging and clanging against all the routes inside me.

Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.

It's not the game, Zee. It's the fame. Everyone wants to be affiliated with a winner.

There is no better high than discovery.

If you don't know the question, you are not ready for the answer.

Your guardian angel must have been working over time, ' Penny laughed shakily. Rose laughed as she put her arms around her sister and hugged her. 'More like the Devil taking care of his own.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective... I wanna learn and I wanna listen.

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists are quite capable of fighting multiple battles at once!

My future does not depend on me but on any decision by the Togo federation.

I certainly identify myself as a feminist.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.