Life is what happened when all the 'what-ifs' didn't . . . .
Lie to yourself until it's true.
Just so you know, when they say Once upona time . . . they’re lying
Just because you choose to leave a place did not mean that you could escape taking it with you. A man and a woman who lived together long enough might swap traits, until they found parts of themselves...
It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth, she said. It's that he loves you too much to risk it.
It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.
It struck Lacy that she didn’t really know what color a chameleon was before it started changing
It is very hard to believe you when I'm trying so hard to pretend it never happened.
Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though the knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever?
Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?
Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.
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 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.
If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made.
I want to live, he said, So I have to die.
I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.
I used to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they were staring at. I wanted toknow what made their heads turn, what it was about me that was so incredibly different. At first Ico...
I think we deserve a happily-ever-after.If anyone ever did, it's us.