Love isn't what you expect it to be. You imagine being drunk on happiness, but the truth is, you worry all the time. Is she ill? Hurt? Might she meet someone else? There's a moment when you realize yo...
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day...
Life is what happened when all the 'what-ifs' didn't . . . .
Lie to yourself until it's true.
Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love.
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 hard to separate the fact from the fiction...
It struck Lacy that she didn’t really know what color a chameleon was before it started changing
It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful.It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.
It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.
In the wild, a calf under the age of two will not survive without its mother. In the wild, a mother’s job is to teach her daughter everything she will need to know to become a mother herself. In the w...
If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn’t going to destroy other people’s lives.
If you knew you were going to die, wasn’t it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?
If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.
If we are meant to only have children who never encounter difficulty in life, then no one should be born.
I want to live, he said, So I have to die.
I think it is a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. —Vladimir Nabokov
I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.
I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.