Telepathically, I tell her I'm sorry. I tell her I just can't confide in her right now, tell her the three feet between us feels like three light-years to me and I don't know how to bridge it.

Telepathically, she tells me back that I'm breaking her broken heart.

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I can't shove the dark out of my way.

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Mots clés despair loneliness darkness

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I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.

Jandy Nelson

Mots clés love young-adult contemporary

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Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.

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Mots clés young-adult contemporary

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Sarah is the most enthusiastic cynical person on the planet. She’d be the perfect cheerleader if she weren’t so disgusted by the notion of school spirit.

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Mots clés humour funny

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Before he finally hops on his borad, he hugs me good-bye and we hold on to each other so tightly under the sad, starless sky that for a moment I feel as if our heartbreak were one instead of two.

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I want to thank him for not making me say a word, and getting it all the same, but I just remain silent as the sun pours heat and light, as if from a pitcher, all over our bewildered heads.

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Sadness pulses out of us as we walk. I almost expect the trees to lower their branches when we pass, the stars to hand down some light. I breathe in the horsy scent of eucalyptus, the thick sugary pine, aware of each breath I take, how each one keeps me in the world a few seconds longer. I taste the sweetness of the summer air on my tongue and want to just gulp and gulp and gulp it into my body--this living, breathing, heart-beating body of mine.

Jandy Nelson

Mots clés sadness grief

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Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.
Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.

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Mots clés marriage motherhood

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And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.

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Mots clés storytelling story-writing narrative-therapy

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