"Rogerson,"I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea,"he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints."
"If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go."
"Your mother won a special reward,"she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
"Your mother won a special reward,"she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
"But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown."
"Rogerson,"I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea,"he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints."