Reaching and reached. Cassia

...I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.

Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.

Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't.When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are--how impossible to reach.

She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.

We need you.""I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.

Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel

No, ' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been.

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?

I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

See into life, don't just look at it

Help!!!! Why is Wednesday spelled like that?!!!!

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

Everything starts with writing.