The farther you move from the core of the problem, the faster the situation spins out of control.
In all these years we've been together, he said, I don't think I know an important part of you. You keep secrets inside you. You hide. It's as though I've never seen you naked, and I've had to imagine...
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He praised the food that I cooked. He cried honestly when I brought out trinkets I had saved for the right...
All night long I worried, not about myself but about Jimmy. I imagined him looking for me, running through the park, looking in the movie theatres. He was a good man, considerate and kind, but he was...
Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don't adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as did my father, who was a Baptist minister. And I am not an atheist, one...
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
To keep false hopes is to prolong misery.
These days I realize that faith and fate have similar effects on the believer. They suggest that a higher power knows the next move and that we are at the mercy of that force. They differ, among other...
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
Teddy once told me that it's natural that we feel alone, and that's because our hearts are different from others and we don't even know how. When we're in love, as if by magic, our different hearts co...
People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was as if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness kept pouring out. She said it was faith that kept all these good things coming our way,...
Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea...
It's not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable...What was...
It was our fate and our natures, flawed and wounded, that brought us together - Violet Minturn
It isn't that i consider them brave, they are reckless, unpredictable, maddeningly unreliable. But like rogue waves and shooting stars, they also add thrills to a life that otherwise would be as regul...