There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack ope...
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
There is a reason people say being a mother is the hardest job in the world: You do not sleep and you do not get vacation time. You do not leave your work on your desk at the end of the day. Your brie...
There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.
There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.
Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.
The weapons a writer has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example.I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand diffe...
The truth is, I don't want to be disappointed again. Not by someone else's shortcomings, and especially not by my own.
The terrible thing about falling in love is that real life always gets in the way.
The safety of the rescuer is of a higher priority than the safety of the victim. Always. •
The problem with marriage - or may be its strength - was that it spanned a distance, and you were never the same person you started out being. If you were lucky, you could still recognize each other y...
The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
The crisis might be what sticks in my mind, but the in-between moments are the ones I would not have missed for the world.
The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.
That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.
Suicides, almost by definition, are all ghosts - stuck earthbound because they are desperate to apologize to their loved ones or because they are so ashamed of themselves.
Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together....
Sometimes, to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. - Julia Romano