“If all this tree is from mom and all this tree is from him where do I grow my own branches?” — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
“Why am I not good enough? At least he loves Darren and Yaicha in some way even if it's horrible, he shows them attention… — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry, I had a meeting" I stand behind his chair. "Liar," under my breath. "You weren't at a meeting," take a breath, gain… — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I am just outside enough, being the footstool observing from the corner, that I have a view of reality.” — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
“The foam cushions on the old couch downstairs disintegrate daily in a hush, like each of us, small flecks of hardening puffs raining mute… — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
“With all the dizzy galaxies hot gases dust at the speed of light neutrinos running through everything, no matter how powerful someone is here… — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
“Not scared. But excited in that jiggering-on-too-much-hot-sauce kind of way that it's time to step out of my old framework, raw and amorphous, to… — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
“I am always there. But they don't care if I am because I am furniture. I don't get hit I don't get fondled I… — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
I never realized till now how hard the brain has to work to make the body do what it asks. Or maybe how hard… — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
“I got an A on the third quiz in American history, an A, dammit. Last time I got a B up from a C… — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
“I'm sure you were mistaken," Yaicha says to her brush. My ears pin back - "MISTAKEN? I know who Angie is, Yaicha. I know… — Thalia Chaltas Copy Share Image
