This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?
Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.
Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his so...
Some stains never wash out.
Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were hom...
Other people look at me and think: But all I see when I look at you is that girl who had memorized all the words to Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by the time she was three, the girl who crawls into bed...
On one side of the seesaw is my education. My nursing certification. My twenty years of service at the hospital. My neat little home. My spotless RAV4. My National Honor Society-inductee son. All of t...
On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder...
No, he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. I am not giving you up.Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use...
No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
May be it took realizing that you could die to keep you from wanting to do it.
Kid says to me, You play baseball? What position? Left out? and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-...
Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go. Even when you couldn't see me, you knew deep down I was still there.
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.