The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, … - Melvin Burgess

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Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.

Melvin Burgess

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

Arms, Girl, Like, Magic, See

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Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space. . . All that negative stuff. All the pain. . . It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it. . . up and away.

Blasts, Doors, Opens, Pain, Space

It's mind control, see. You have to go to school, get those exams, get to university or college, get a job, get married, don't miss the boat, do it now or you'll shoot your life down the drain. Yeah. They got you as soon as you were born. They never risked a second of your life. When you have kids they'll be telling them they have to wear a plastic mask and put a penny in the slot about their nose before they can breathe in.

Jobs, Kids, Life, Risked, School, Wear

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.

Everything, Smack, Trying, Want

It wasn't a love story. " -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk. " -Tar

Dad, Gemma, Junk, Stories

I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you were still in bed. What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?

Dream, Everything, Forgot, Thinking, Yesterday