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f1f36fb She couldn't get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn't get away. rape skin girl teen incest Cynthia Voigt
81b9cc8 She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls' hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to. rape freedom writing pen girl teen incest Cynthia Voigt
3c63b4c I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore. Cynthia Voigt
4821b7e I got to thinking--when it was too late--you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out again if you care enough. If you don't care enough, you forget about them, if you can. Cynthia Voigt
1f22df7 You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it? Cynthia Voigt
8bef7d2 Why doesn't momma come back? Cynthia Voigt
85e8fe6 The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she had been all summer. She had taken care of them all, sometimes well, sometimes badly. And they had covered the distances. For most of the summer, they had been unattached. Nobody knew who they were or what they were doing. It didn't matter what they did, as long as they all stayed together. Dicey remembered that feeli.. introspective growing-up poignant Cynthia Voigt
169463b Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love. Cynthia Voigt
670c382 People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times. Cynthia Voigt
9c55b57 People had no more choice than animals about the burdens they carried. Cynthia Voigt
452f2db Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop. the-dog Cynthia Voigt
4df0dc0 a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were. Cynthia Voigt
ac68297 I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood nothing of people and had no way to learn. I felt fear. Until you have felt fear, you cannot imagine it. Once you have really felt it, you know that all your earlier nervousness was but a pale shadow. Cynthia Voigt
6741fb4 Dicey looked out over the tall marsh grasses, blowing in the wind. If the wind blew, the grasses had to bend with it. Cynthia Voigt
4622467 Even after everyone had gone home, the house was filled with the good time they'd had, as if it could linger in the air like the voices and music lingered in memory. Mina wrapped the memory up and put it in her heart; there was a quiet gladness, deep like a tree and tall in her Cynthia Voigt
5a6c1a4 Behind the mask Jackaroo wore, there could be a face of bone, its flesh long since eaten away. Jackaroo could fight as a trained soldier, with swords and shield; he could ride a horse like a Lord; and he had the knowledge of letters which only the Lords held. Cynthia Voigt
43ba374 Men, and women too, are unpredictable creatures. You have seen little of this. I wonder now if your innocence is enough protection for you. Cynthia Voigt
d0e2cd5 Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, wheere love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions came later and the answers wouldn't matter much measured up against the love. Cynthia Voigt
bc9121c Oriel didn't move. But inside of his head, all was movement, like a river running over rapids, searching for the way through, trying routes around rocks and over shallows, a turbulence of thought more rapid than he could follow. Griff, he knew, would do and say nothing until he heard Oriel's choice. Cynthia Voigt
1dc1863 When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated. Cynthia Voigt
2caf269 all work is worth doing well. And there are things to be enjoyed about most jobs... Cynthia Voigt
2b466da Where the veil broke, you could see silvery clouds on which tall angels might stand. Not cute little Christmas angels, but high, stern angels in white robes, whose faces were sad and serious from being near God all day and hearing His decisions about the world. god-s-decisions Cynthia Voigt
1acfddb Mina thought to herself, watching, her momma was the kind of woman she wanted to be, wherever else she got to in her life. Cynthia Voigt
623b224 Your grandmother thought--no, she believed, it was like a faith for her. She believed it the way some people believe in God or science. She believed that it was the rules that made her life so easy. She thought life was about the rules people make for it, as if life was some kind of a board game and if you had a little luck, and you kept to the rules, you'd end up winning. Or maybe she thought it was like a game of solitaire and once the ca.. cards life-philosophy luck rules Cynthia Voigt
4a7b154 He held the whip that and made those marks, and drawn that blood, and he was ashamed. He held the whip that could make more marks on the flesh of Nikol's back. While Nikol begged. Cynthia Voigt
3502c8d You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs ... They thought that just because they were smashing eggs they must be making an omelette Cynthia Voigt
666ae3d Evil would be done, that was the nature of the world; that was bearable if good could also be done. Cynthia Voigt
c22b15a When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle. "Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty." Cynthia Voigt
64bcfc0 Is there such a thing?' Birle asked. He looked thoughtfully at her, but not as if he saw her. 'Men have dreamed of it, although none has ever held it in his hand, not to my knowledge. I cannot say that there is such a thing, no. But equally I cannot say there is not. Why should a man be able to dream of it if it cannot be? If it is so impossible, then what put's it into a man's mind? Greed puts many things into men's mind, and fear does too.. Cynthia Voigt
3aee291 He felt -- washed clean, healed. He felt if he could just live here he would be all right. He felt as if he had never been alive before. He felt at ease with himself and as if he had come home to a place where he could be himself, without hiding anything, without pretending even to himself. He felt, thinking his way back up the beach, as if his brain had just woken up from some long sleep, and it wanted to run along beside the waves, to see.. Cynthia Voigt
33ff278 To himself, he called it a safe place, and when they were finally settled in at the end of July, living in the three-room house where windows gave out over the water and woods and sky, he knew he had been right. Cynthia Voigt
1fb1ff3 All she knew was that his smile lit up the morning as the rising sun does. For a moment, looking at his face, it was as if her ribs were empty, hollow, as if the world had stopped forever while she looked into his eyes as blue as the bellflowers that grew wild across the meadows. For a moment, just until her beating heart had returned to her chest, Birle had thought she understood everything about herself she had never understood before. Cynthia Voigt
e5b61d4 Beriel shone with it, like a sun, the Queen in her Kingdom. It was as if each breath she drew increased her pleasure, breathing that air. It was as if each hoof the chestnut planted onto the earth increased her strength. Cynthia Voigt
b01df4f The Damall liked to see Nikol being angry and not being able to do anything about it. The Damall liked to see Nikol being afraid and being ashamed. Cynthia Voigt
367b3af It took another time, more waves rolling up, to understand that he had no idea what it would be like to live without fear at his elbow, warning him, keeping him safe, keeping him frightened. Cynthia Voigt
5988701 Whatever Blithe wanted, she wanted absolutely and immediately. There was no budging Blithe. Cynthia Voigt
dff3471 If they were afloat on the sea, and blind in the fog -- they didn't even know what direction they should turn in. What then did it matter that she knew reading and writing, or that he had been caught out in a plot against his overlord? Cynthia Voigt
3fbd641 Looked at from where she sat unsleeping, the sky seemed walled in by forest. It looked as if there was a river of sky matching the water river below. Cynthia Voigt
4ba0221 Maybeth always did that, brought her good news to the table and held it out, like a little kid holding out her hand, then unwrapping her fingers to show some treasure, some stone or flower. She held her good news out to them all, giving it to them. Cynthia Voigt
cc41e33 He was wrong, somehow, and he wanted to be all right, but it was almost as if there was some secret nobody would tell him, so he was always going to be stuck outside. Cynthia Voigt
0abd29b He fell into sleep then, as a body weighted with stones and wrapped in winding sheets falls into deep water. Cynthia Voigt
4dd13a1 She was too often too close to off balance, she knew that. Cynthia Voigt
58a053d Griff had the guarded face of a man who had much to lose by the wrong choice, although he had never had anything to lose. Griff's smile visited his face like a stranger who was only asking directions on his way through to another town. Cynthia Voigt
932ce9d I persist in examining Mumma from all of the angles available to me I will learn. Not learn how to be a good mother to Sarah, who abandoned me on the sidewalk in front of the school building on the first day of kindergarten ("I don't need a mother any more"), but rather, to understand her, to know when to stand at her shoulder, when to sit in the stands and cheer her on, when to place myself squarely behind her, and when to throw myself in .. motherhood Cynthia Voigt
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