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Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to scream
Louder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge


John E. Wordslinger

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E. LOCKHART Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
E. LOCKHART He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.
E. LOCKHART But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I fee...
E. LOCKHART I love him, but I am not sure I like him.
E. LOCKHART She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing ...
E. LOCKHART I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.
E. LOCKHART He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.
E. LOCKHART Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.
E. LOCKHART Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than c...
E. LOCKHART Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.
E. LOCKHART Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing...
E. LOCKHART If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.
E. LOCKHART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
E. LOCKHART What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
E. LOCKHART She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far ...
E. LOCKHART My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summe...
E. LOCKHART Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bu...
E. LOCKHART ... the God who controls the wheeling galaxies and who spoke before the foundation of the world must...
E. ELLIOT We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.
E. LOCKHART There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHART What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to...
E. NESBIT I see it for what is is, now. It is a house built on ashes. Ashes of the life Granddad shared with G...
E. LOCKHART You must live long enough to remember your mistake. That is your punishment. That is your destiny.
E. MELLYBERRY