--Goose Girl by Patrice Kindl
“The King and the Prince, I must tell you, are both courting me. They each swear to be sick with love-longing for me, and so they may be for aught I know. I am of the opinion, however, that the sacks of diamonds and gold dust under my bed are as bewitching as my more personal attractions.”
--Goose Girl by Patrice Kindl
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“I’d be lying if I said that given a choice, I wouldn’t rather know than not know. But there are some things you can just know for no good reason other than that you do, and then there are other things that no matter how badly you want to know them, you just can’t. The truth is, whether you know something or not doesn’t change what was.”
--So B. It by Sarah Weeks “The thing I don’t understand is, tomorrow all those kids who were throwing food at one another will still be friends. They’ll be laughing and making small talk and everything will be okay. But they won’t be laughing and making small talk with me. I don’t understand. I think there is something wrong with them.”
--Invisible by Pete Hautman “I am very easy to get along with. My mother would not agree with that. She finds me difficult. In fact, she thinks that I am troubled and disturbed. I find it troubling that she finds me disturbing, so she must be right. Right?”
--Invisible by Pete Hautman “I lost more than my innocence.”
—Angela G. --I Can't Keep My Own Secrets by the editors of Smith Magazine “Met him once. Changed me forever.”
—Juliah D. --I Can't Keep My Own Secrets by the editors of Smith Magazine “The keys I have don’t fit.”
—Alicia K. --I Can't Keep My Own Secrets by the editors of Smith Magazine “I’m not the Katie you knew.”
–Katelyn W. --I Can't Keep My Own Secrets by the editors of Smith Magazine “Roots are shallow, wings are broken.”
—Kelly V. --I Can't Keep My Own Secrets by the editors of Smith Magazine “Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part-time job. And it didn’t pay well at all.”
--The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie |