Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home? What we had wasn't about sex,...
I've met so many parents of the kids who are on the low end of the autism spectrum, kids who are diametrically opposed to Jacob, with his Asperger's. They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's verbal,...
Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you...
Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it. Usually I am in transit, speeding in my Jeep until my lungs give out. Today, I'm driving ninety-five dow...
But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first...
Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
You keep distracting me, I tell her.All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!Exactly, I say, and I smile at her.j
In my opinion, the very fact that Mark doesn't know this diagnostic criterion suggests that he's a lot closer to actual retardation than I am.
What makes a treasure a treasure. Marine replied, is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.
You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.
I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere.
They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.
An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they're the ones doing the tour of duty. The doctors breeze in and out like conquering heroes, but they...
Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you...
You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.
For God's sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it's that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I'm not doing that, Dee. It may look like that today, or tomorrow, or...
Teachers deserve respect, I explain. Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?
It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.
As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all.
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.