I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not.

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating

I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are

I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die. I hate those crying dough women on TV because they are just like me, weak and broken and clinging to the hands that hold us under.

And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

Telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.