I think...she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts.
I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.
I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.
I honestly can't tell if [she's] being intentionally mean or is she's truly that stupid.
I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, Ian whispers. I think we just do.
Home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving...
Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte...
Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to liv...
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like may be he is living between the covers of a book himself. Like may be everyone in every home is su...
24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas...
If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)
The image of those widmestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
When you are singled out for torture because of your faith, can religion still be a beacon?
When I was younger, my brother told me that he had the power to shrink me to the size of an ant. In fact, he said, he used to have another sister, but he shrank her down and stepped on her.He also tol...
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen t...
This is where I go, when I go:It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.I'm there, but I'm not there.I a...