Not scared.But excited in thatjiggering-on-too-much-hot-saucekind of waythat it's time tostep outof my old framework, raw and amorphous, to become something I've never thought of before.

I never realizedtill nowhow hard the brain has to workto make the body do what it asks.Or maybe how hard the body has to workto ignorethe brain.

Or maybe I am justoutside enough, being the footstool observing from the corner, that I have a view of reality.

Then why don't I tell on him?If they don't, why don't I?Because.Because I am safe this way, silent unnoticed.

You've always been skinny, always will." I can feeleachreclusivebonepoke through, the bones of Embarrassment, Anger, Relief.I push some back in, but leaveAngersticking out.

Why am I not good enough?At least he loves Darren and Yaichain some wayeven if it's horrible, he shows them attentionand I am furnitureI get nothing nothingnothingno thing

I think that is supposed to be good, that I get less from him but I feel worthless.

The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.

Pride and self-hate belong inseparably together

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

My father was a dentist, and I always thought that he was one of the 10. It's an interesting way to personalize and humanize, which is one of the most important aspects of communication.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

A "New York Times"/CBS poll found 59 percent of the country didn't think Sarah Palin was prepare for the job that John McCain had picked her for.

When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.

The Book of Mormon changes lives.