It should be noted that my mother has a long history of being disturbingly unperturbed by what normal people deem perturbing. Certain things simply don't strike her as worthy of a sit-down.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme, " I lied.

The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.

It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.

Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth.

In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected.

It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.

All The Things I Transformed By My Loving Soul, God, I Really Do Hope ...No One Is Ever Going To Love Them ...Ever Again.Petra Hermans

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

Being on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.