Believe me, you're all I've thought about --At this, I grin.
You? I start to laugh. Look at you. You're a knock-out. You're smarter than I am. You're on a career track and you're family-centered and you probably even can balance your checkbook.And I'm lonely, C...
When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart...
When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.
What we could not see clearly, we didn’t have to pretend to understand.
We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying...
True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.
This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open...
There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there’s someone who must give.
The problem, he said, with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.
The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinnin...
The Center had suffered scars from the cuts of politicians and the barbs of protesters. It had licked its wounds and healed. At one point it had been called the Center for Women and Reproductive Healt...
Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what’s in front of us. And sometimes, we don’t see clearly at all.
Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.
Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.
She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a pie...
Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.