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Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Bright Burning Stars Universe Words

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Magic Mouth Pearls Tongue Velvet Words

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Angry Happy Head Heart Rules Sad Sentence Shout Words

I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Empty Space Understand Warm Oil Words

He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken, a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Broken Colours Light Stained Glass

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Colour Crystals Diamonds Eyes Heart Light Reflects

... we sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light. Billy said that when we die the darkness leaves us.'We're pure and perfect then,' he said, 'the way we are when we're born.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Born Darkness Die Light Moon Perfect Pure

You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Friends Mad Telling A Secret

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Dream Hard To Believe Imagined True

The girl danced like light on water. After I'd watched for a while I looked with all of me, not just my eyes, and then I saw the meaning of the dance. I wanted to stop looking because it was so sad, but I couldn't because it was so beautiful.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Beautiful Dance Sad Watch

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Dark Empty Space Love Room Sad

I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, still water. For a second I thought I could see pictures in them, like I was looking right inside her to where her memories were. She smiled, and I wondered if she knew what I'd seen or if she could see the pictures I kept hidden inside myself.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Eyes Hidden Memories Pictures

She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Beautiful Close Enough Dancing Rush Away Sea Touch Wild

... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Beautiful Brave Life Love Mother The Most Important Thing

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Live Mother

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Goodbye Kiss Love

I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Dark Free Kiss Small Small Free Kiss In The Dark

We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Dark Hearts Houses No Lights Raspberry Tarts

..so Grandpa turned the rusty latchkey of his magnificent remembery and set free a symphony of stories

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Poetic Reminiscing Storytelling

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Dreams Drove Hell Holy Night Nightmares Sleeping Tangle Waking

... and all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and skin like the moon.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Eyes Moon Pansies Skin

I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.

~ Glenda Millard

Glenda Millard Hug Remember
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