There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.
The first time I read Gone with the Wind and Rhett walked out on Scarlett, I was fifteen and thought all that unrequited love was wildly romantic. The second time I read it, last summer, I thought she...
THE TRUTH and ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.
Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.
So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your blo...
Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.
Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.
It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disapp...
Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - th...
If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?
I used to have pink hair, I told Seven.I used to have a real job, he answered.What happened?He shrugged. I dyed my hair pink. What happened to you?
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.
I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn...
I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
Heroes did not always swoop in to rescue. They made questionable calls. They lived with doubts. They replayed and edited and imagined different outcomes. They killed, sometimes, to save.
Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.
But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.