I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they...
I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.
How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.
How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
When they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing...
People think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a litt...
This is what it means to be human. We are all just canvases for our scars.
Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch br...
The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their due so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As...
She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.
Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.
Real fairy tales are not for the fainthearted. Children get eaten by witches and chased by wolves; women fall into comas and are tortured by evil relatives. Somehow all that pain and suffering is wort...