It sounds crazy, to think that I cared so much without ever talking to you.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

Laughter comes from living." I shrug, try to sound indifferent. "I've never really been alive before.

I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

Why are you touchin

I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes im not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all

Things are changing, but this time I'm not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I've made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident

Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

I didn't think it was possible at my age, honestly. They call it a geriatric pregnancy.

I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.

I like spoken-word as much as the singing word.

You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?" "All right," he whispers.

She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.