The introduction to horrors so young impressed on me just how helpless and vulnerable I was. Parents are supposed to empower their children to live without them but in my family, I wasn’t given permission to be my own person. I thought I needed them to live and then they abandoned me. It’s no wonder I felt so unempowered well into my adult years. Christina Enevoldsen
My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.
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Rick Riordan
Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I’ve said is…an understatement.
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Jeaniene Frost
Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.... Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. 'Well, Mitch it is then, ' Morrie says, as if closing a deal. 'And, Mitch?' Yes? 'I hope one day you will think of me as your...
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Mitch Albom
[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me, " she said, "tell people that.")
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Amy Tan
I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.
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Criss Jami
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