I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen. Glenda Millard More Quotes by Glenda Millard More Quotes From Glenda Millard 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 burning stars fall 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 dream believe thinking 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 light eye heart 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 heart song long Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home. Glenda Millard home book needs I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark. Glenda Millard given kissing dark 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 gone-away max goodbye When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe. Glenda Millard wings doors bird I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you. Glenda Millard helping sometimes promise Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part. Glenda Millard next knowing running
