![]() Author has written 3 stories for Winx Club. Favorites: Winx Club- Musa, Riven Legend of Korra Young Justice "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices." -Henry David Thoreau "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." -Jodi Picoult "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." Henry David Thoreau "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" -Audrey Hepburn Four Skinny Trees They are the only ones who understand me. I am the only one who understands them. Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine. Four who do not belong here but are here. Four raggedy excuses planted by the city. From our room we can hear them, but Nenny just sleeps and doesn't appreciate these things. Their strength is a secret. They send ferocious roots beneath the ground. They grow up and they grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger. This is how they keep. Let one forget his reason for being, they’d all droop like tulips in a glass, each with their arms around the other. Keep, keep, keep, trees say when I sleep. They teach. When I am too sad and too skinny to keep keeping, when I am a tiny thing against so many bricks, then it is I look at trees. When there is nothing left to look at on this street. Four who grew despite concrete. Four who reach and do not forget to reach. Four whose only reason is to be and be. Passage from House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros |