I know I told you to go to hell, I say, but I'm glad you ignored me.Delia, that newspaper story--You know what? I say, trying to keep my voice from breaking. Right now, I don't need a journalist. But...
Her voice sounded like a string that was fraying.
He's too busy living to talk about dying. -Cara
He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it. She pulled back slightly, to look into his eyes. And then there was a shot.
For the risk of it, for the sheer surprise of pressing one's nose to the glass and finding someone staring back on the other side.
Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic.
Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give- and then realize that it still isn't whay they need?
Daniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.
Bleeding heart, he’d called her.Well. He should know.He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.
Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.
If you don't want somwone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)
Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back...
Well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
This was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun.
They accepted any baggage that came with you and made you believe you were more than you actually were
There's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.
The way to pull a divided group together is to give them a common enemy.
The smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.