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Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drun...more

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Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she becam...more

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A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

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The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.

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I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

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At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a s...more

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Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

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...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly e...more

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The marks we leave are too often scars.

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It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted fo...more

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We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I ...more

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I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

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Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I kn...more