Rachel Klein
She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.Collection: Dream
You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.Collection: Dream
.. the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.Collection: Truth Is
I can’t imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don’t know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.Collection: Sex
Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.Collection: Funeral
You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.Collection: Ritual
I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.Collection: Heart
I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.Collection: Struggle
I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable. If only we had the power to keep outside ourselves at such moments, we would spare ourselves so much pain and fear. I'm not talking about truth or falsehood but about surviving.Collection: Girl
Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.Collection: Girl
How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?Collection: Details