jim

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.

You want me to go back into that house protected by a magic sticky note?___on__ even start,_ I told him. __t__ working. If it weren__ working, you couldn__ drag me into that place.___hat did you write on here? __on__ die_?___o, I wrote, __on__ be an a-hole!__ I headed for the house.__n yours or mine?___n yours.___ell, in that case, your magic isn__ working. I__ still an asshole.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. I turned to walk into the house, moving carefully.I had never much believed in God. Well, that's not quite true. I believed that there was a God, or something close enough to it to warrant the name if there were demons, there had to be angels, right? If there was a Devil, somewhere, there had to be a God. But He & I had never really seen things in quite the same terms.All the same. I flashed a look up at the ceiling. I didn't say or think any words, but if God was listening, I hoped he got the message nonetheless. I didn't want of these children getting themselves killed.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strange year, halloween came early....don't you ditch me jim nightshade...don't talk death. Someone might hear...

Listen, I don't want things to get weird, okay.""Oh, yeah, no, weird is bad.""But just so you and I are clear, I really fucking want to kiss you right now.

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that__ bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they__e afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they__e wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It__ all in how you carry it. That__ what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you__e letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.