The fastest journey is achieved on foot
Adele GriffinFears are to be faced, not denied, and life is to be lived, not mourned.
Adele GriffinIt's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking
Adele GriffinRevenge is two wrongs that make a right. Julian did something wrong. What did you do wrong?
Adele GriffinSister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.
Adele GriffinTags: young-adult my-almost-epic-summer summer-reading
Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?
Adele GriffinTags: comedy
What are you burning?" On a glance, just some papers.
"I write in a journal." He spoke below his breath, so that his words weren't quite for me. "Because I like to see everything written down. So that I know it really happened. That I wasn't just making it up. Then I read it and memorize it. And then I have to destroy the hard evidence."
I thought of my own journal, the muddle of every page. All those unfiltered, lunatic letters to Sean Ryan.
"What is it, exactly, that you need to destroy?"
"Everything that I don't want to be true.
Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters.
Adele GriffinNever feel like you need to visit him, ever?"
"I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?
Tags: parents
This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.
Adele GriffinTags: lies storytelling
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