There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the ene...
The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always un...
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 ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you'r...
Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.
Science never failed to humble him, just as much as his faith, and he unequivocally believed that the two could exist side by side.
On the day before classes were supposed to start, Mama took me out to dinner. You’re destined to do small great things, she told me. Just like Dr. King said. She was referring to one of her favorite q...
Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's g...
Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.
Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.
McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win.Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming.
Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.
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's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.
It's got to be a nice life, long as you don't get caught.
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...
Isn’t that what true romance issupposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night. Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
I wonder if there's a difference between being a dutiful mother and being a good mother.'There is,' I said, and Charlotte looked up at me, expectant. Even if I couldn't articulate the difference as an...
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?