I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.

Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.

Every gift opens a heavenly door to the giver.

I really wasn't sure if I wanted this guy knowing where I lived. After all, he was wielding a baseball bat, and I had just seen him strike several people with that bat.

I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer.

Oh, boy. I'm still in touch with about 90 percent of my exes. They would describe me as being unlucky in love.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

Cats learned how to fly that evening.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.

Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.