Reality is frigid; I have to dip one toe at a time and grow accustomed to the shock before wading in further.
Peter tucked the glasses into the front pocket of Jordan’s jacket. I kind of like knowing you’retaking care of them, he said. And there isn’t all that much I really want to see.Jordan nodded. He walke...
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. —NELSON MANDELA, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit...
Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all th...
Oh, darling, that’s what love is. It’s some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person.
Objection! Metz shouts.Grounds? the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!
Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's g...
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
My father died last year, Thomas said. I still look for him in crowds.
Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time
Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good lib...
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
Just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way.
I’m sure I’m worth a lot more dead than alive—the sum of the parts equals more than the whole.
It was simply what happened when the histories of two people dovetailed into one.
It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love...
It still hurts, she whispered. Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.