“She says, ‘See? Don’t you feel better?’ And she does not know that I tried to drown myself accidentally on purpose for the second time today.”
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“The bills picked up, so my mother picked up two jobs and she’s been working them ever since.”
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“When we had to tell our kids that my wife had cancer, my eldest son held it together, made it into math. My daughter shattered like a slipped and soapy plate, but my youngest, the eight-year-old, went silent as sleep, eyes wide and wet.”
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“It’s scientifically proven that tall people are more attractive or some shit.”
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“Biracial boy is tug-of-war, but biracial boy is both sets of hands pulling at each end.”
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“I count the exits in a room as quickly as I count the exits in a conversation.”
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“A lie this big could move these mountains, but the truth could obliterate them.”
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“Like good poems, teenage girls are sharp. Our wit cuts deeply like the scissors we use to cut crop tops out of everything and anything.”
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“My name wasn’t given to me. It was given to the rest of the country.”
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“She’s learned enough English to translate for her parents, but says that her thick accent is still a problem she tries to fix by leaving in her locker.”
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