Tears of a tiger

3. -A ponytail makes her look simultaneously younger, like a schoolgirl in a uniform, and older, too, the severity of just a face framed by that swinging hair.
5. I pull out my beat-up composition notebook try to write another butterfly poem.
6. Nothing so indiscreet as a price tag, which means outrageous.
7. Gods and goddesses may occasionally help, but they don’t mess around with affairs that affect only humans. To them, mortal lives are but a speck of dust on the eyelash.”
11. You have progressed from a state of “wanting to die” to the much more positive outlook of “learning to live.
12. Since Cathy was an only child her mother had no close contrast in the family.
14. The second Anna learned from the first and claimed to love sunshine and detest lies.
15. Besides, the pain had lessened: either the nerve had died or my brain had adjusted to its shocks.

1. The policemen’s attitude toward us and the way they spoke to us made my stomach hurt.
2. Unfortunately, or not, as the case may be, this vice seems to be rampant at our school.
3. The Muslim first had to change his physical and moral self to meet our strict rales.
4. We need to hike an informal trail—stumble on, as quick as possible, in the dark, down a dangerous hill.
8. I couldn’t watch a creature frantically trying to live, knowing it only had a short while—an hour or two, maybe.
9. He sought help at the VA and used therapy to cope with the depression and rage he was feeling.
10. She only wants him to work and to be honorable, so that he can hold his head up high.
13. Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky.