In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.
If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.
If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it
I've always been able to see you, I say. It's a rather lovely view.
I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth—it’s that when we’re chatting, I feel like I’ve known her all my l...
How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he desc...
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. S...
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.
Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in...
And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was musi...
All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but...
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really...
Sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.
If you don't get sick, you won't get well.
If there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.