The highest ranking wolf in the pack isn't the one that uses brute force. It's the one who can, and chooses not to.
The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following:1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog.
That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person
That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.
Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.
Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.
She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.
She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust.
She is the person I ran to when I got my period; the one who helped me knit back together my first broken heart; the hand I would reach for in the middle of the night when I could no longer remember w...
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at al...
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?
Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what...
Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.
Louie believed that those white men with their signs and slogans were not really there for the unborn, but there for the women who carried them. They couldn’t control women’s sexual independence. To t...
Jacob like a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears To...
It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A chil...
It was an attraction born of close quarters, and false familiarity. It meant absolutely nothing. Yet she drove home one-handed, the fingertips of her free hand gently touching her mouth, whispering, B...
It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.