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“The wall I'd built up against the well of pain and fear and anger finally collapsed, and I began to cry. I sobbed, the…

— Alexandra Bracken

“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I caught his…

— Veronica Roth

“Seeing my father behind a thick glass wall in an orange jumpsuit was hammering it home, that life as I knew it was about…

— Winter Travers

“So I'd grown up eating my words, and it wasn't until later that that I realized how many had gotten backed up inside me.…

— Lisa Ko

“ran as fast as I could, and they chased after me trying to bite my butt. They ripped my pants!”

— Crafty Nichole

“Dad leapt over the garden wall instead of going through the gate. Sadly he didn‘t do himself a severe injury, and so he lives…

— Louise Rennison

“I rode up, walked past a few miles of wallpaper that was someone's revenge for life's disappointments.”

— Keith Laumer

“On my first evening in the back country, I skipped down the porch steps of the farmhouse-leaving my father inside and the radio playing…

— Mitch Cullin

“My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head…

— Eula Biss

“As a kid, I had the worst mile time ever. Our gym teacher made us run the mile a few times a year for…

— Miranda Kenneally

“You build walls so high, it feels like you’ll never tear them down, and you don’t want to either, because walls protect you.” “Do…do…

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“well, I haven't heard from you since you went to pick up the treadmill so I am assuming some big, burly, longshoreman has absconded…

— Debbie Grant