Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a pair of keys. You did not suffer the death of a...
How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
Did you ever think our misfortune is directly related to your good fortune? Maybe the house your parents bought was on the market because the sellers didn't want my mama in the neighborhood. Maybe the...
But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.
When they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
When I first met Cara, she was twelve and angry at the world. Her parents had split up, her brother was gone, and her mom was infatuated with some guy who was missing vowels in his unpronounceable las...
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...
We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.
There was a look in their eyes, sometimes . . . They weren’t dreading the trigger being pulled, even if the gun was already pointed at them. It was as if they ran toward it. I could not fathom this, a...
The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.
She’s not like anyone I’ve ever seen before. When I’m not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I’m supposed to say, much less how tospeak...
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.
Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.
People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.
On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.