Her smile shames the sun
He truly believed that no one could love him, and no matter who you are, that hurts. It made you insecure. It made you want to hide and build fences
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the...
For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?
Few things, I assure you, will devastate like the might-have-beens.
Fame is more addictive than crack. Adults who lose fame--one-hit wonders, for example--usually tailspin into depression, though they try to act like they're above it. They don't want to admit the trut...
Don't show me paradise and then burn it down
Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age. Maya
Confusion helps. Confusion leads to lengthy reconstruction and clarification and exposition and several other ions.
Children view their parents as both intrepid and omnipotent—yet here their parents are, gazing up at me, the doctor, with a fear-filled longing normally reserved for religious rapture. What
Another weird thing about funerals: Wear black but kill something as colorful as flowers to decorate.
Adam left work early and drove to the new turf field at Cedarfield High School. The boys’ lacrosse team was practicing. He parked down the block, out of sight, and watched his son Thomas from behind t...
Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man.
A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.
Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.
The cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don’t say.
You’re not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite.
You think I should tell Jeremy? I think first and foremost you should put aside your Batman complex, she said. What the hell does that mean? It means you always try a little too hard to be heroic. And...
You hear about adrenaline, how it spurs you on and gives you uncanny strength, but there's a flip side. The feeling is heady, out of control. It heightens your senses to the point of paralysis. You ha...
Win took another putt. Another make. We’re not the same, you and I. We both know that. But it’s okay. It’s not okay. Yes, it is. If we were the same it wouldn’t work. We’d both be dead by now. Or insa...