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We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin ...more

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I think sometimes in literature we kind of police ourselves. I know a lot of people talked about Twilight, and they would say, oh, but the heroine, sh...more

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I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

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One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other ...more

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Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them...more

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Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great ha...more

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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with t...more

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I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

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I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

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Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.”“How right you are, strange delusional m...more

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New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period.Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes andin your pants.

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Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

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Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

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The land has a memory. Every stream and river runs with a confession of sorts, history whispered over rocks, lifted in the beaks of birds at a stream,...more

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A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail an...more